Presynaptic resurgent Na+ currents sculpt the action potential waveform and increase firing reliability at a CNS nerve terminal

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 46, 2010, Pages 15479-15490

  Kim, Jun Hee ^a   Kushmerick, Christopher ^b   Von Gersdorff, Henrique ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE ETHOBROMIDE; SODIUM CHANNEL; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SODIUM CURRENT; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN STEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SODIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 78449246774     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3982-10.2010     Document Type: Article

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