The time window for generation of dendritic spikes by coincidence of action potentials and EPSPS is layer specific in somatosensory cortex

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Ledergerber, Debora ^a,b   Larkum, Matthew Evan ^b,c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPIKE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; PATCH CLAMP; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME; WISTAR RAT;

RATTUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DENDRITES; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84858135997     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033146     Document Type: Article

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