Weak and straddling secondary nicotinic synapses can drive firing in rat sympathetic neurons and thereby contribute to ganglionic amplification

Frontiers in Neurology

Volumn SEP, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Rimmer, Katrina ^a   Horn, John P ^a  

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

Author keywords

Depression; Facilitation; Summation; Superior cervical ganglion; Synaptic gain

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862175325     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2010.00130     Document Type: Article

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