Dynamic Range of Vertebrate Retina Ganglion Cells: Importance of Active Dendrites and Coupling by Electrical Synapses

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Publio, Rodrigo ^a   Ceballos, Cesar Celis ^a   Roque, Antonio C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DYNAMICS; ELECTRICAL SYNAPSE; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; GAP JUNCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PHASE TRANSITION; RETINA GANGLION CELL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AMBYSTOMA; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; DENDRITES; ELECTRICAL SYNAPSES; GAP JUNCTIONS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84868130495     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048517     Document Type: Article

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