Morphological and functional continuum underlying heterogeneity in the spiking fidelity at the calyx of held synapse in vitro

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 38, 2011, Pages 13386-13399

  Grande, Giovanbattista ^a,b   Wang, Lu Yang ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SLICE; BRAIN STEM; CALYX OF HELD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAR; FEMALE; IMAGING; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INNERVATION; MALE; MEDICAL NUCLEUS OF THE TRAPEZOID BODY; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECORDING; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; SPIKE; SUPERIOR OLIVARY NUCLEUS; SYNAPSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SYNAPSES;

EID: 80052973760     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0400-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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