Segmental differences in firing properties and potassium currents in Drosophila larval motoneurons

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1356-1365

  Srinivasan, Subhashini ^a   Lance, Kimberley ^a   Levine, Richard B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal; Excitability; Ganglion; Locomotion; Thoracic

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM; SHAL POTASSIUM CHANNEL; VOLTAGE DEPENDENT ANION CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; LARVA; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PERITONEAL CAVITY; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; THORACIC CAVITY; WHOLE CELL;

ABDOMEN; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; INTERNEURONS; LARVA; MOTOR NEURONS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; THORAX;

EID: 84857321623     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00200.2011     Document Type: Article

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