Cellular and network contributions to vestibular signal processing: Impact of ion conductances, synaptic inhibition, and noise

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 8359-8372

  Rössert, Christian ^a   Moore, Lee E ^b   Straka, Hans ^a   Glasauer, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHANNEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE DEPENDENT POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FROG; INNER EAR; ION CONDUCTANCE; MALE; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPIKE WAVE; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; VESTIBULAR NERVE;

EID: 79958245377     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6161-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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