Diminution of voltage threshold plays a key role in determining recruitment of oculomotor nucleus motoneurons during postnatal development

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Carrascal, Livia ^a   Nieto González, Jose Luis ^a   Torres, Blas ^a   Nunez Abades, Pedro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT ANIMAL; AGE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN SLICE; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; FEMALE; HYPERPOLARIZATION; INPUT RESISTANCE; MALE; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE GROWTH; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECRUITMENT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OCULOMOTOR NUCLEUS; PERIKARYON; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; RAT; RHEOBASE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; OCULOMOTOR NERVE; PHYSIOLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL SIZE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; OCULOMOTOR NERVE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 83055198369     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028748     Document Type: Article

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