Dynamic spike threshold and zero membrane slope conductance shape the response of subthalamic neurons to cortical input

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 39, 2010, Pages 13180-13191

  Farries, Michael A ^a   Kita, Hitoshi ^b   Wilson, Charles J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NERVE TRACT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPIKE WAVE; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; CELL MEMBRANE; CHANNEL GATING; CORPUS STRIATUM; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; NERVE CELL; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS STRIATUM; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FEMALE; ION CHANNEL GATING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 77957355967     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1909-10.2010     Document Type: Article

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