Rethinking tuning: In vivo whole-cell recordings of the inferior colliculus in awake bats

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 35, 2007, Pages 9469-9481

  Xie, Ruili ^a,b   Gittelman, Joshua X ^a   Pollak, George D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

FM directional selectivity; in vivo whole cell recordings; Inferior colliculus; Inhibition; Synaptic tuning; Tuning curves

Indexed keywords

BICUCULLINE; CHLORIDE; STRYCHNINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTRODE; EXCITATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FREQUENCY MODULATION; IN VIVO STUDY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPSE; TUNING CURVE; WAKEFULNESS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; BICUCULLINE; CHIROPTERA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ECHOLOCATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; GABA ANTAGONISTS; GLYCINE AGENTS; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; STRYCHNINE; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 34548384939     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2865-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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