Increased excitability of cortical neurons induced by associative learning: An ex vivo study

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1715-1725

  Bekisz, Marek ^a   Garkun, Yury ^a   Wabno, Joanna ^b   Hess, Grzegorz ^b,c   Wrobel, Andrzej ^a   Kossut, Malgorzata ^a,d  

^a NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHARMACOLOGY   (Poland)

^c JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^d SWPS UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Barrel cortex; BK channels; Classical conditioning; Intracellular recordings; Mice; Vibrissae

Indexed keywords

IBERIOTOXIN; LARGE CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN CORTEX; EX VIVO STUDY; INTERNEURON; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOUSE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION;

6-CYANO-7-NITROQUINOXALINE-2,3-DIONE; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BICUCULLINE; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; GABA-A RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS; LARGE-CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM-ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNELS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PEPTIDES; PIPERAZINES; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 78349233073     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07453.x     Document Type: Article

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