Persistent Nav1.6 current at axon initial segments tunes spike timing of cerebellar granule cells

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 588, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 651-670

  Osorio, Nancy ^a   Cathala, Laurence ^b   Meisler, Miriam H ^d   Crest, Marcel ^a   Magistretti, Jacopo ^c   Delmas, Patrick ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.2; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.6; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; GRANULE CELL; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PURKINJE CELL; REPOLARIZATION; SPIKE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AXON INITIAL SEGMENT; CEREBELLAR GRANULE CELL; CEREBELLAR SLICE; GENOTYPE; IN VIVO STUDY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; PERINATAL PERIOD; SODIUM CURRENT; WILD TYPE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AXONS; CEREBELLUM; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; SODIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 77949494524     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2010.183798     Document Type: Article

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