Analysis of distinct short and prolonged components in rebound spiking of deep cerebellar nucleus neurons

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1646-1657

  Sangrey, Thomas ^a   Jaeger, Dieter ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain slice; Dynamic clamp; Inhibition; Persistent ion channel; Rat

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL T TYPE; SODIUM;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CURRENT; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL NUCLEUS; CEREBELLUM; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; SODIUM CONDUCTANCE; SODIUM CURRENT; SPIKE WAVE; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; APAMIN; CALCIUM; CEREBELLAR NUCLEI; ION CHANNELS; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 78349240367     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07408.x     Document Type: Article

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