Functional differentiation of a population of electrically coupled heterogeneous elements in a microcircuit

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 93-105

  Sasaki, Kosai ^a   Cropper, Elizabeth C ^a   Weiss, Klaudiusz R ^a   Jing, Jian ^a,b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; APLYSIA; ARTICLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HYPERPOLARIZATION; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INTERNEURON; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE WAVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; APLYSIA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INTERNEURONS; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE NET; NEURONS;

EID: 84871744985     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3841-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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