Origin of intrinsic irregular firing in cortical interneurons

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 7886-7891

  Stiefel, Klaus M ^a,b,c,e   Englitz, Bernhard ^a,b,c,f   Sejnowski, Terrence J ^a,b,c,d  

^a Computational Neurobiology Laboratory ^*  (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^e WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Bistability; Cortex; Fluctuations; Inhibitory interneuron; Neural noise

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERNEURON; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; POTASSIUM CONDUCTANCE; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SPIKE WAVE;

BISTABILITY; CORTEX; FLUCTUATIONS; INHIBITORY INTERNEURON; NEURAL NOISE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INTERNEURONS; KINETICS; MICE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POTASSIUM; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84877321160     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1305219110     Document Type: Article

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