Cortical action potential backpropagation explains spike threshold variability and rapid-onset kinetics

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 29, 2008, Pages 7260-7272

  Yu, Guo ^a   Shu, Yousheng ^b   McCormick, David A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People s Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

Axon; Hodgkin huxley; Kink; Na+ channels; Pyramidal cell; Spike timing

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; FERRET; HODGKIN HUXLEY EQUATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SIMULATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; KINETICS; NERVE CONDUCTION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; REACTION TIME; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; FERRETS; KINETICS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; REACTION TIME; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 49049084101     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1613-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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