A small fraction of strongly cooperative sodium channels boosts neuronal encoding of high frequencies

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Huang, Min ^a,b   Volgushev, Maxim ^c   Wolf, Fred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CHANNEL GATING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; KINETICS; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ION CHANNEL GATING; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS; SODIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 84861557028     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037629     Document Type: Article

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