Relationship between afterhyperpolarization profiles and the regularity of spontaneous firings in rat medial vestibular nucleus neurons

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 288-298

  Saito, Yasuhiko ^a   Takazawa, Tomonori ^a   Ozawa, Seiji ^b  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ca2+ dependent K+ channel; In vivo whole cell recording; Membrane properties; Vestibulo ocular reflex

Indexed keywords

APAMIN;

AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; APAMIN; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; SMALL-CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM-ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNELS; VESTIBULAR NUCLEI;

EID: 48249146946     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06338.x     Document Type: Article

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