Roles of axonal sodium channels in precise auditory time coding at nucleus magnocellularis of the chick

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 587, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 87-100

  Kuba, Hiroshi ^a   Ohmori, Harunori ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHANNEL;

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CHICK; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SODIUM CURRENT; SPIKE; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AXONS; BASAL NUCLEUS OF MEYNERT; CHICKENS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; SODIUM CHANNELS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 58149312535     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2008.162651     Document Type: Article

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