Axons amplify somatic incomplete spikes into uniform amplitudes in mouse cortical pyramidal neurons

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Chen, Na ^a   Yu, Jiandong ^a   Qian, Hao ^a   Ge, Rongjing ^a   Wang, Jin Hui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; NERVE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; REFRACTORY PERIOD; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPIKE WAVE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AXONS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MICE; NEURONS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS;

EID: 77955614356     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011868     Document Type: Article

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