A frequency-dependent switch from inhibition to excitation in a hippocampal unitary circuit

Nature

Volumn 431, Issue 7007, 2004, Pages 453-456

  Morl, Masahiro ^a   Abegg, Mathias H ^a   Gähwiler, Beat H ^a   Gerber, Urs ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; FIBERS; POLARIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BRAIN STRUCTURES; EXCITATORY TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTIC RESPONSES;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

BIOLOGY; NEUROLOGY;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS POTENTIAL; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MOSSY FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERNEURON; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALIA; HIPPOCAMPUS HIPPOCAMPUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTERNEURONS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 4644349968     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02854     Document Type: Article

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