Impact of persistent cortical activity (up states) on intracortical and thalamocortical synaptic inputs

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 119-131

  Rigas, Pavlos ^a   Castro Alamancos, Manuel A ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LATENT PERIOD; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MOUSE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PERSISTENT CORTICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT;

ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; REACTION TIME; SYNAPSES; THALAMUS;

EID: 67649616207     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00126.2009     Document Type: Article

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