Axonal sodium channel distribution shapes the depolarized action potential threshold of dentate granule neurons

Hippocampus

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 558-571

  Kress, Geraldine J ^a   Dowling, Margaret J ^a   Eisenman, Lawrence N ^a   Mennerick, Steven ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Excitability; Hippocampus; Potassium channel; Principal cell; Seizures

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; SODIUM CHANNEL; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL DENSITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CHLORIDE CONDUCTANCE; DENTATE GRANULE NERVE CELL; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EXCITABILITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM CONDUCTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AXONS; CA3 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SODIUM CHANNELS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 77950117438     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20667     Document Type: Article

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