Active properties of neocortical pyramidal neuron dendrites

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-24

  Major, Guy ^a   Larkum, Matthew E ^b   Schiller, Jackie ^c  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Action potential; Computational subunit; NMDA receptor; NMDAR; Spike; Synaptic integration

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; CHLORPHENIRAMINE MALEATE PLUS PHENYLEPHRINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

BIOPHYSICS; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; COOPERATION; DENDRITE; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HYPERPOLARIZATION; IN VIVO STUDY; INTEGRATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; REVIEW; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPIKE; SYNAPSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DENDRITES; NEOCORTEX; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE;

EID: 84875254396     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: 15454126     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-neuro-062111-150343     Document Type: Review

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