Regularity, variability and bi-stability in the activity of cerebellar Purkinje cells

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue NOV, 2009, Pages

  Rokni, Dan ^a   Tal, Zohar ^a   Byk, Hananel ^a   Yarom, Yosef ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ca imaging; Climbing fiber; Complex spike; Firing state; Mossy fiber; Simple spike

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953402788     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.03.012.2009     Document Type: Review

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