Functional specializations of primary auditory afferents on the Mauthner cells: Interactions between membrane and synaptic properties

Journal of Physiology Paris

Volumn 104, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 203-214

  Curti, Sebastian ^a,b   Pereda, Alberto E ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Electrical resonance; Gap junctions; LTP; Persistent sodium current; Repetitive firing; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CELL SPECIFICITY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRICAL SYNAPSE; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MAUTHNER CELL; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BIOPHYSICS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FISHES; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; REACTION TIME; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 77952549657     PISSN: 09284257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jphysparis.2009.11.017     Document Type: Article

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