Extracting synaptic conductances from single membrane potential traces

Neuroscience

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 545-552

  Pospischil, M ^a   Piwkowska, Z ^a   Bal, T ^a   Destexhe, A ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

cerebral cortex; computational models; conductance estimation; dynamic clamp; maximum likelihood; synaptic noise

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GUINEA PIG; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; MEMBRANE MODEL; NONHUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOCHASTIC MODEL; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE;

ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICAL PROCESSES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GUINEA PIGS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SYNAPSES;

EID: 58149469532     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2008.10.033     Document Type: Article

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