Presynaptic and postsynaptic origin of multicomponent extracellular waveforms at the endbulb of Held-spherical bushy cell synapse

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1574-1581

  Typlt, Marei ^a   Haustein, Martin D ^b   Dietz, Beatrice ^a   Steinert, Jörn R ^b   Witte, Mirko ^a   Englitz, Bernhard ^c   Milenkovic, Ivan ^a   Kopp Scheinpflug, Cornelia ^a,b   Forsythe, Ian D ^b   Rübsamen, Rudolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS IN THE SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory brainstem; Extracellular single unit recordings; Synaptic transmission

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; NEUROTRANSMITTER; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CHANNEL;

A WAVE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B WAVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GERBIL; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; P WAVE; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; WAVEFORM; WISTAR RAT; ANIMAL; BRAIN; COCHLEA; DRUG EFFECTS; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; METABOLISM; MICROELECTRODE; NERVE CELL; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPTOSOME;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; COCHLEA; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GERBILLINAE; IN VITRO TECHNIQUES; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICROELECTRODES; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; SODIUM CHANNELS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 77951805897     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07188.x     Document Type: Article

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