Climbing fiber coupling between adjacent Purkinje cell dendrites in vivo

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue AUG, 2009, Pages

  Bengtsson, Fredrik ^a   Jörntell, Henrik ^a,b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Climbing fibers; Electrotonic coupling; Inferior olive; Purkinje cells; Synchrony

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958162740     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.03.007.2009     Document Type: Article

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