Postnatal development of intrinsic and synaptic properties transforms signaling in the layer 5 excitatory neural network of the visual cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 26, 2011, Pages 9526-9537

  Etherington, Sarah J ^a,b   Williams, Stephen R ^a,c  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MALE; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 79960017812     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0458-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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