Role of giant depolarizing potentials in shaping synaptic currents in the developing hippocampus

Critical Reviews in Neurobiology

Volumn 18, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 13-23

  Mohajerani, Majid H ^a   Cherubini, Enrico ^a  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calcium rise; cAMP dependent PKA; Coincident detection signals; Correlated activity; Mossy fiber CA3 connections; Schaffer collateral CA1 synapses; Silent synapses; Spontaneous and evoked EPSCs; Synaptic strength

Indexed keywords

1 [2 (BENZHYDRYLIDENEAMINOOXY)ETHYL] 1,2,5,6 TETRAHYDRO 3 PYRIDINECARBOXYLIC ACID; 2 AMINO 4 PHOSPHONOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; 6,7 DINITRO 2,3 QUINOXALINEDIONE; ALPHA AMINO 3 HYDROXY 5 METHYL 4 ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; BICUCULLINE; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR AGONIST; GLUTAMIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENDRITE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FACILITATION; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMBRANE CURRENT; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY AFFERENT DEPOLARIZATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 36649019529     PISSN: 08920915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/CritRevNeurobiol.v18.i1-2.30     Document Type: Review

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