Entorhinal stellate cells show preferred spike phase-locking to theta inputs that is enhanced by correlations in synaptic activity

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 6027-6040

  Fernandez, Fernando R ^a   Malerba, Paola ^a   Bressloff, Paul C ^a   White, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 (N ETHYL N PHENYLAMINO) 1, 2 DIMETHYL 6 (METHYLAMINO) PYRIMIDINIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONDUCTANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FREQUENCY MODULATION; IMPEDANCE; MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPIKE WAVE; STELLATE CELL; STIMULUS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THETA RHYTHM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIOPHYSICS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; SYNAPSES; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 84875971349     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3892-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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