Impact of dendritic size and dendritic topology on burst firing in pyramidal cells

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1-19

  van Elburg, Ronald A J ^a,b   van Ooyen, Arjen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEURONS;

ACTION-POTENTIALS; DENDRITIC MORPHOLOGY; DENDRITICS; FIRING PATTERNS; INTER SPIKE INTERVALS; NEURONAL SIGNALLING; PYRAMIDAL CELL; RELEVANT PATTERNS; SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY; TOPOLOGICAL STRUCTURE;

TOPOLOGY;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURFACE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATIC CELL; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENDRITES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 77955487108     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000781     Document Type: Article

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