Spatiotemporally graded NMDA spike/plateau potentials in basal dendrites of neocortical pyramidal neurons

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2584-2601

  Major, Guy ^a,d   Polsky, Alon ^b   Denk, Winfried ^c   Schiller, Jackie ^b   Tank, David W ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; GLUTAMIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; AMPA RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SPIKE WAVE; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CYTOLOGY; DENDRITE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IONTOPHORESIS; METABOLISM; NEOCORTEX; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DENDRITES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GLUTAMIC ACID; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IONTOPHORESIS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEOCORTEX; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE;

EID: 47549113283     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00011.2008     Document Type: Article

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