Subthreshold sodium current underlies essential functional specializations at primary auditory afferents

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1683-1699

  Curti, Sebastián ^a,b   Gómez, Leonel ^c   Budelli, Ruben ^c   Pereda, Alberto E ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOQUÍMICA   (Uruguay)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM; SODIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FACILITATION; HEARING ACUITY; MAUTHNER CELL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; POTASSIUM CONDUCTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SODIUM CURRENT; SYNAPSE;

4-AMINOPYRIDINE; ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GOLDFISH; HEARING; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; SODIUM CHANNELS; TETRODOTOXIN; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

EID: 42249091939     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01173.2007     Document Type: Article

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