Channel noise from both slow adaptation currents and fast currents is required to explain spike-response variability in a sensory neuron

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 48, 2012, Pages 17332-17344

  Fisch, Karin ^a   Schwalger, Tilo ^b   Lindner, Benjamin ^b   Herz, Andreas V M ^a   Benda, Jan ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELAYED RECTIFIER POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHANNEL GATING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; ION CURRENT; LOCUSTA MIGRATORIA; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MODEL; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SLOW INWARD CURRENT; SODIUM CURRENT; SPIKE WAVE; WHITE NOISE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GRASSHOPPERS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84870218351     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6231-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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