Modeling intrinsic electrophysiology of AII amacrine cells: Preliminary results

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 6551-6554

  Apollo, Nick ^a   Grayden, David B ^a,b,c   Burkitt, Anthony N ^a,b,c   Meffin, Hamish ^a,b   Kameneva, Tatiana ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c Bionics Institute   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; CURRENT-VOLTAGE RELATIONSHIP; ELECTRICAL STIMULATIONS; NEURAL MODELS; PATCH CLAMP RECORDING; RETINAL DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; ROD BIPOLAR CELLS; WHOLE CELL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY;

CELLS;

ION; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; TETRODOTOXIN;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; GAP JUNCTION; HUMAN; MACULAR DEGENERATION; NERVE CELL; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA ROD; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA;

AMACRINE CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GAP JUNCTIONS; HUMANS; IONS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM; RETINA; RETINAL DISEASES; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SODIUM; SOFTWARE; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 84886564736     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2013.6611056     Document Type: Conference Paper

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