Muscarinic receptor activation enables persistent firing in pyramidal neurons from superficial layers of dorsal perirhinal cortex

Hippocampus

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1392-1404

  Navaroli, Vicky L ^a   Zhao, Yanjun ^a   Boguszewski, Pawel ^a   Brown, Thomas H ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Anterior cingulate cortex; Entorhinal cortex; Lateral amygdala; Postsubiculum; Trace fear conditioning; Transient memory; TRPC channels; Working memory

Indexed keywords

3,6A,11,14 TETRAHYDRO 9 METHOXY 2 METHYL 12H ISOQUINO[1,2 B]PYRROLO[3,2 F][1,3]BENZOXAZINE 1 CARBOXYLIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; 4 DIPHENYLACETOXY 1 METHYLPIPERIDINE; 6,7 DINITRO 2,3 QUINOXALINEDIONE; APV; CARBACHOL; FLUFENAMIC ACID; IONOTROPIC RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; OTENZEPAD; PICROTOXIN; PIRENZIPINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN SLICE; CALCIUM CONDUCTANCE; DORSAL PERIRHINAL CORTEX; DRUG MECHANISM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HYPERPOLARIZATION; LATERAL AMYGDALA; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NEUROPHARMACOLOGY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PERSISTENT FIRING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRANSIENT MEMORY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; MALE; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, MUSCARINIC;

EID: 84861342313     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20975     Document Type: Article

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