Balanced tone-evoked synaptic excitation and inhibition in mouse auditory cortex

Neuroscience

Volumn 163, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1302-1315

  Tan, A Y Y ^a   Wehr, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

In vivo whole cell; Synaptic conductance; Tonal receptive field; Voltage clamp

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BRAIN CELL; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SYNAPTIC EXCITATION; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME; VOLTAGE CLAMP; ANIMAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; C57BL MOUSE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; HEARING; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; PATCH CLAMP; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYNAPSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; LINEAR MODELS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; SYNAPSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 76249087795     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2009.07.032     Document Type: Article

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