Dynamic spike thresholds during synaptic integration preserve and enhance temporal response properties in the avian cochlear nucleus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 36, 2010, Pages 12063-12074

  Howard, MacKenzie A ^a   Rubel, Edwin W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CHICK; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; COMPARTMENT MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEARING; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTORY PERIOD; SPIKE WAVE; SYNAPTIC EFFICACY; TEMPORAL SUMMATION; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE; VOLTAGE CLAMP; WHOLE CELL; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOPHYSICS; CHANNEL GATING; CHICKEN; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NEWBORN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIOPHYSICAL PHENOMENA; CHICKENS; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FEMALE; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; ION CHANNEL GATING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM; SYNAPSES; IN VITRO TECHNIQUES;

EID: 77956570239     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1840-10.2010     Document Type: Article

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