Mixed mode oscillations in mouse spinal motoneurons arise from a low excitability state

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 5829-5840

  Iglesias, Caroline ^a   Meunier, Claude ^a   Manuel, Marin ^b   Timofeeva, Yulia ^c   Delestrée, Nicolas ^a   Daniel, Zytnicki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLAMP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROLYTE TRANSPORT; FEMALE; HIGH FREQUENCY OSCILLATION; HYSTERESIS; IN VIVO STUDY; MIXED MODE OSCILLATION; MOUSE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SODIUM CONDUCTANCE; SODIUM CURRENT; SPIKE WAVE; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; STEADY STATE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; MEMBRANES; MICE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; SODIUM CHANNELS; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 79955782892     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6363-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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