NMDA channels together with L-type calcium currents and calcium-activated nonspecific cationic currents are sufficient to generate windup in WDR neurons

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1155-1166

  Aguiar, P ^a,b   Sousa, M ^b   Lima, D ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c University of Porto   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; COMPARTMENT MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE NERVE CELL; WINDUP;

ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNELS, L-TYPE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; INTERNEURONS; ION CHANNEL GATING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SYNAPSES;

EID: 77955972258     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00834.2009     Document Type: Article

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