Action potential generation requires a high sodium channel density in the axon initial segment

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 178-186

  Kole, Maarten H P ^a   Ilschner, Susanne U ^a   Kampa, Björn M ^a,d   Williams, Stephen R ^a,b   Ruben, Peter C ^a,c   Stuart, Greg J ^a  

^a Biology and Environment   (Australia)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; SODIUM ION; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; DENDRITE; DENSITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SODIUM CURRENT; VOLTAGE CLAMP; WHOLE CELL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AXONS; BENZOFURANS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOCHALASIN B; DRUG INTERACTIONS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ETHERS, CYCLIC; ION CHANNEL GATING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHALLOIDINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SODIUM; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; SODIUM CHANNELS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 38649083179     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn2040     Document Type: Article

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