Sleep spindles are generated in the absence of T-type calcium channel-mediated low-threshold burst firing of thalamocortical neurons

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

Volumn 110, Issue 50, 2013, Pages 20266-20271

  Lee, Jungryun ^a,b   Song, Kiyeong ^c   Lee, Kyoobin ^b,d   Hong, Joohyeon ^c   Lee, Hyojung ^c   Chae, Sangmi ^b   Cheong, Eunji ^c   Shin, Hee Sup ^a  

^a Institute for Basic Science   (South Korea)

^b Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^c Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^d Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CALCIUM CHANNEL T TYPE; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE GATED CHANNEL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; GENOTYPE; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MEMBRANE RESISTANCE; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NONREM SLEEP; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SLEEP SPINDLE; SPIKE; SPIKE WAVE; TELEMETRY; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS RETICULAR NUCLEUS;

EID: 84890287196     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1320572110     Document Type: Article

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