Climbing fiber signaling and cerebellar gain control

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue JUL, 2009, Pages

  Ohtsuki, Gen ^a,b   Piochon, Claire ^a   Hansel, Christian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Calcium; Cerebellum; Climbing fiber; Corticotropin releasing factor; Long term depression; Long term potentiation; Parallel fiber; Purkinje cell

Indexed keywords

EID: 71249099485     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.03.004.2009     Document Type: Review

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