Midline thalamic paraventricular nucleus neurons display diurnal variation in resting membrane potentials, conductances, and firing patterns in vitro

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 107, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1835-1844

  Kolaj, Miloslav ^a   Zhang, Li ^a   Rønnekleiv, Oline K ^b   Renaud, Leo P ^a  

^a OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain slice preparations; Burst firing patterns; Day night; Midline thalamus

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; CATION; MESSENGER RNA; POTASSIUM;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN TISSUE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VITRO STUDY; MIDLINE THALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; NIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIOPHYSICS; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENTS; CAVEOLIN 3; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; MALE; MIDLINE THALAMIC NUCLEI; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; PYRIMIDINES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 84859518734     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00974.2011     Document Type: Article

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