Reliable neuronal systems: The importance of heterogeneity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Lengler, Johannes ^a   Jug, Florian ^c   Steger, Angelika ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Collegium Helveticum   (Switzerland)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL HETEROGENEITY; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; SPIKE WAVE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALPHA-AMINO-3-HYDROXY-5-METHYL-4-ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; ANIMALS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMANS; LEARNING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84891856018     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080694     Document Type: Article

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