Mechanism underlying rebound excitation in retinal ganglion cells

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 709-731

  Mitra, Pratip ^a,b   Miller, Robert F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Action potentials; Ih; Low voltage activated calcium channels; Retina; T type calcium channels

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CHANNEL; TETRODOTOXIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SPIKE WAVE; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

AMBYSTOMA; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CELL MEMBRANE; CESIUM; COBALT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ION CHANNELS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SODIUM; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 35948972419     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523807070654     Document Type: Article

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