Dendritic spikes enhance stimulus selectivity in cortical neurons in vivo

Nature

Volumn 503, Issue 7474, 2013, Pages 115-120

  Smith, Spencer L ^a,b   Smith, Ikuko T ^a,b   Branco, Tiago ^a,c   Häusser, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID;

MEMBRANE; ORIENTATION; VISUAL CUE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SPIKE WAVE; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; DENDRITES; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; VISUAL CORTEX; WAKEFULNESS;

MUS;

EID: 84887401253     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12600     Document Type: Article

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