The action potential in mammalian central neurons

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 451-465

  Bean, Bruce P ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; CALCIUM CHANNEL N TYPE; CALCIUM CHANNEL P TYPE; CALCIUM CHANNEL Q TYPE; CALCIUM CHANNEL R TYPE; CALCIUM CHANNEL T TYPE; POTASSIUM; RNA; SODIUM; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; APLYSIA; BRAIN CELL; CALCIUM CONDUCTANCE; CALCIUM CURRENT; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; HODGKIN HUXLEY EQUATION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; SODIUM CONDUCTANCE; SODIUM CURRENT; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AXONS; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CELL MEMBRANE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; NEURONS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; SODIUM CHANNELS;

CEPHALOPODA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 34248995257     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn2148     Document Type: Review

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