Transmission of phase-coupling accuracy from the auditory nerve to spherical bushy cells in the Mongolian gerbil

Hearing Research

Volumn 268, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 234-249

  Dehmel, Susanne ^a   Kopp Scheinpflug, Cornelia ^a   Weick, Michael ^a   Dörrscheidt, Gerd J ^b   Rübsamen, Rudolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b Tiefurth Mill ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BICUCULLINE; STRYCHNINE;

ACCURACY; ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CELL SHAPE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; COCHLEA POTENTIAL; COCHLEAR NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; GERBIL; IN VIVO STUDY; IONTOPHORESIS; MONGOLIA; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRESYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPIKE WAVE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTOSOME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BICUCULLINE; COCHLEAR NERVE; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; GABA-A RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS; GERBILLINAE; GLYCINE AGENTS; IONTOPHORESIS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; STRYCHNINE; SYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77955768602     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2010.06.005     Document Type: Article

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