Prefrontal cortex HCN1 channels enable intrinsic persistent neural firing and executive memory function

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 34, 2013, Pages 13583-13599

  Thuault, Sébastien J ^a   Malleret, Gaël ^b   Constantinople, Christine M ^a   Nicholls, Russell ^a   Chen, Irene ^a   Zhu, Judy ^a   Panteleyev, Andrey ^a   Vronskaya, Svetlana ^a   Nolan, Matthew F ^c   Bruno, Randy ^a   Siegelbaum, Steven A ^a   Kandel, Eric R ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE GATED CHANNEL; HCN1 CHANNEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HYPERPOLARIZATION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RESPONSE TIME; SPIKE WAVE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE-GATED CATION CHANNELS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURONS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SERIAL LEARNING; SYNAPTIC POTENTIALS;

EID: 84882570542     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2427-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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