Changes in firing pattern of lateral geniculate neurons caused by membrane potential dependent modulation of retinal input through NMDA receptors

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 582, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 297-315

  Augustinaite, S ^a,b   Heggelund, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; IN VIVO STUDY; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SPIKE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL SUMMATION; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; ACTION POTENTIAL DURATION; FIRING RATE; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GENICULATE BODIES; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PIPERAZINES; QUINOXALINES; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 34347262492     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2007.131540     Document Type: Article

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