Backpropagating Action Potentials Enable Detection of Extrasynaptic Glutamate by NMDA Receptors

Cell Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 495-505

  Wu, Yu Wei ^a,b   Grebenyuk, Sergei ^a   McHugh, Thomas J ^a   Rusakov, Dmitri A ^b   Semyanov, Alexey ^a,c  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c LOBACHEVSKY STATE UNIVERSITY OF NIZHNY NOVGOROD   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; GLUTAMIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACKPROPAGATING ACTION POTENTIAL; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; DOWN REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; ION CONDUCTANCE; MOUSE; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOLYSIS; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SYNAPSE; UPREGULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CA1 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; CALCIUM; DENDRITIC CELLS; DOWN-REGULATION; GLUTAMIC ACID; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84861693096     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2012.03.007     Document Type: Article

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