T current potentiation increases the occurrence and temporal fidelity of synaptically evoked burst firing in sensory thalamic neurons

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 32, 2008, Pages 11376-11381

  Bessaïh, Thomas ^a   Leresche, Nathalie ^a   Lambert, Régis C ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Corticothalamic; Lemniscal; Low threshold calcium spike; Nucleus reticularis thalami

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; THALAMUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNELS, T-TYPE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; THALAMUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 49649103535     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0801484105     Document Type: Article

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