Models of neocortical layer 5b pyramidal cells capturing a wide range of dendritic and perisomatic active properties

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Hay, Etay ^a   Hill, Sean ^b   Schürmann, Felix ^b   Markram, Henry ^b   Segev, Idan ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MAMMALS;

ACTION-POTENTIALS; BUILDING BLOCKES; CA 2+; CONDUCTANCE BASED MODELING; CORTICAL COLUMNS; DENDRITICS; KEY FEATURE; MODELLING STUDIES; PROPERTY; PYRAMIDAL CELL;

MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STIMULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; ACTION POTENTIAL; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CYTOLOGY; DENDRITE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NEOCORTEX; PHYSIOLOGY; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; WISTAR RAT;

MAMMALIA; RATTUS;

ION CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DENDRITES; ION CHANNELS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEOCORTEX; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 79960952525     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002107     Document Type: Article

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