Cortical dendritic spine heads are not electrically isolated by the spine neck from membrane potential signals in parent dendrites

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 385-395

  Popovic, Marko A ^a   Gao, Xin ^a   Carnevale, Nicholas T ^a   Zecevic, Dejan ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortex; Cortical spines; Optical recording; Plasticity; Voltage sensitive dyes

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DENDRITIC SPINE; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPIKE WAVE; SPINE NECK; SYNAPSE; VOLTAGE SENSITIVE DYE IMAGING;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORTICAL SPINES; OPTICAL RECORDING; PLASTICITY; VOLTAGE-SENSITIVE DYES;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENDRITES; DENDRITIC SPINES; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; OPTICAL IMAGING; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSES; TIME FACTORS; VOLTAGE-SENSITIVE DYE IMAGING;

EID: 84896351039     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs320     Document Type: Article

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