Diverse levels of an inwardly rectifying potassium conductance generate heterogeneous neuronal behavior in a population of dorsal cochlear nucleus pyramidal neurons

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 107, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3008-3019

  Leao, Ricardo M ^a,c   Li, Shuang ^a   Doiron, Brent ^b   Tzounopoulos, Thanos ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Auditory; Neural heterogeneity; Potassium channels; Spontaneous firing

Indexed keywords

INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; DORSAL COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; MOUSE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM CONDUCTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; STEADY STATE;

ANIMALS; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; NEURONS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, INWARDLY RECTIFYING; PYRAMIDAL CELLS;

EID: 84861881107     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00660.2011     Document Type: Article

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