Dynamics of action potential initiation in the GABAergic thalamic reticular nucleus in vivo

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Muñoz, Fabián ^a,c   Fuentealba, Pablo ^a,b  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b Esplugues del Llobregat ^*  (Spain)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; SPIKE WAVE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMUS RETICULAR NUCLEUS; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CYTOLOGY; DENDRITE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; KINETICS; PATCH CLAMP; PHYSIOLOGY; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AXONS; CATS; DENDRITES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; GABAERGIC NEURONS; KINETICS; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NERVE NET; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 84855934307     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030154     Document Type: Article

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