Membrane capacitance measurements revisited: Dependence of capacitance value on measurement method in nonisopotential neurons

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2161-2175

  Golowasch, Jorge ^a,b   Thomas, Gladis ^c   Taylor, Adam L ^d   Patel, Arif ^a   Pineda, Arlene ^a   Khalil, Christopher ^a   Nadim, Farzan ^a,b  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^d BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; COMPARTMENT MODEL; CRAB; GANGLION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AXONS; BRACHYURA; CELL MEMBRANE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENDRITES; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; MICROELECTRODES; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES;

EID: 70350317593     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00160.2009     Document Type: Article

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