Cell-type-specific modulation of intrinsic firing properties and subthreshold membrane oscillations by the M(Kv7)-current in neurons of the entorhinal cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2779-2794

  Yoshida, Motoharu ^a,b   Alonso, Angel ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINOPIRDINE; POTASSIUM;

AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; MEMBRANE CURRENT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STELLATE CELL; WHOLE CELL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTHRACENES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; INDOLES; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; PYRIDINES; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 36249028157     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00033.2007     Document Type: Article

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