Spine calcium transients induced by synaptically-evoked action potentials can predict synapse location and establish synaptic democracy

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Sterratt, David C ^a   Groen, Martine R ^b   Meredith, Rhiannon M ^b   van Ooyen, Arjen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY;

ACTION-POTENTIALS; CA1 PYRAMIDAL NEURON; CALCIUM CURRENT; CALCIUM TRANSIENTS; CURRENT INJECTIONS; IN-VIVO; SCALINGS; SOMATIC MEMBRANES; SYNAPTIC INPUT; SYNAPTIC STRENGTHS;

CALCIUM;

CALCIUM; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL; ALPHA AMINO 3 HYDROXY 5 METHYL 4 ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BACK PROPAGATION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CALCIUM CURRENT; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DENDRITE; DENDRITIC SPINE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPUS POTENTIAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SYNAPSE; WISTAR RAT;

ALPHA-AMINO-3-HYDROXY-5-METHYL-4-ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; ANIMALS; CA1 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; CALCIUM SIGNALING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENDRITES; EVOKED POTENTIALS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84864071361     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002545     Document Type: Article

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