Intrinsic noise in cultured hippocampal neurons: Experiment and modeling

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 43, 2004, Pages 9723-9733

  Diba, Kamran ^a   Lester, Henry A ^a   Koch, Christof ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biophysical modeling; Coding; Current noise; Neural computation; PSD; Voltage noise

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMBRYO; HIPPOCAMPUS; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; ION CHANNELS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PICROTOXIN; QUINOXALINES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SYNAPSES;

EID: 7444221705     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1721-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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