The thalamic low-threshold Ca2+ potential: A key determinant of the local and global dynamics of the slow (<1 Hz) sleep oscillation in thalamocortical networks

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1952, 2011, Pages 3820-3839

  Crunelli, Vincenzo ^a   Errington, Adam C ^a   Hughes, Stuart W ^a,b   Tóth, Tibor I ^a,c  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cortical neurons; Dendrites; Intrinsic calcium signalling; Probabilistic network model; Thalamic neurons

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EYE MOVEMENTS; SLEEP RESEARCH;

ACTION POTENTIALS; BRAIN AREAS; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; CORTICAL AREAS; CORTICAL NETWORK; CORTICAL NEURONS; GLOBAL DYNAMICS; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; INTRINSIC CALCIUM SIGNALLING; KEY DETERMINANTS; LOW THRESHOLDS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NON-RAPID EYE MOVEMENTS; OSCILLATOR SYSTEMS; PROBABILISTIC NETWORK; THALAMIC NEURONS; THALAMO-CORTICAL NETWORK; VITAL SIGNALS;

CALCIUM;

CALCIUM;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; DENDRITE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; KINETICS; METABOLISM; NEOCORTEX; PHYSIOLOGY; SLEEP; SLEEP STAGE; THALAMUS; THALAMUS INTRALAMINAR NUCLEUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANESTHESIA; BRAIN WAVES; CALCIUM; DENDRITES; INTRALAMINAR THALAMIC NUCLEI; KINETICS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEOCORTEX; SLEEP; SLEEP STAGES; THALAMUS;

EID: 80054992430     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0126     Document Type: Article

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