Modeling thalamocortical cell: Impact of Ca2+ channel distribution and cell geometry on firing pattern

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue DEC, 2008, Pages

  Zomorrodi, Reza ^a,b   Kröger, Helmut ^a   Timofeev, Igor ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE DE L INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EN SANTÉ MENTALE DE QUÉBEC   (Canada)

Author keywords

Channel distribution; Low threshold spike; T current; Thalamocortical cell

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL DISTRIBUTIONS; FIRING FREQUENCY; INJECTED CURRENT; LOW THRESHOLDS; MULTI-COMPARTMENT MODELS; T-CURRENT; THRESHOLD NUMBERS; UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION;

CALCIUM; CYTOLOGY; GEOMETRY;

CELLS;

EID: 73949121366     PISSN: 16625188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.10.005.2008     Document Type: Article

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