Heterogeneous biophysical properties of frog dorsal medullary nucleus (cochlear nucleus) neurons

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1953-1964

  Yang, Sungchil ^a,b   Feng, Albert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; CELL POLARITY; CELL STRUCTURE; COCHLEAR NERVE; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; EVOLUTION; FROG; HYPERPOLARIZATION; LATENT PERIOD; MAMMAL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPIKE; TIME;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DENDRITIC CELLS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LYSINE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHENOTYPE; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; RANA PIPIENS;

EID: 35348864381     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00427.2007     Document Type: Article

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