Outwardly rectifying tonically active GABAA receptors in pyramidal cells modulate neuronal offset, not gain

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 48, 2009, Pages 15341-15350

  Pavlov, Ivan ^a   Savtchenko, Leonid P ^a   Kullmann, Dimitri M ^a   Semyanov, Alexey ^b,c   Walker, Matthew C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c LOBACHEVSKY STATE UNIVERSITY OF NIZHNY NOVGOROD   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL;

ANIMALS; AREA UNDER CURVE; BIOPHYSICAL PHENOMENA; CA1 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; CHLORIDES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; GABA AGENTS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GABA-A;

EID: 72849107811     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2747-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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