Staircase currents in motoneurons: Insight into the spatial arrangement of calcium channels in the dendritic tree

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 5343-5353

  Carlin, Kevin P ^b,c   Bui, Tuan V ^a   Dai, Yue ^b   Brownstone, Robert M ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c PURDUE PHARMA L P   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL CYCLE; CELL MATURATION; DENDRITE; DENDRITIC CELL; DORSAL ROOT; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOCOMOTION; MOUSE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEURITE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOMATIC CELL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; SPINAL GANGLION; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CALCIUM CHANNELS; DENDRITES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOTOR NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 65549112237     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5458-08.2009     Document Type: Article

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