Integration of subthreshold and suprathreshold excitatory barrages along the somatodendritic axis of pyramidal neurons

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Oviedo, Hysell V ^a   Reyes, Alex D ^b  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SODIUM CURRENT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SUBTHRESHOLD POTENTIAL SUMMATION; SUBTHRESHOLD SUMMATION; SYNAPTIC BARRAGE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CYTOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPSE;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84858788417     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033831     Document Type: Article

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