Studying properties of neurotransmitter receptors by non-stationary noise analysis of spontaneous postsynaptic currents and agonist-evoked responses in outside-out patches

Nature Protocols

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 434-448

  Hartveit, Espen ^a   Veruki, Margaret Lin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL; NEUROTRANSMITTER RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED RESPONSE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR DENSITY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VOLTAGE CLAMP; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ION CHANNEL GATING; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RECEPTORS, NEUROTRANSMITTER; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 34347207240     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2007.47     Document Type: Article

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