NMDA spikes enhance action potential generation during sensory input

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 383-390

  Palmer, Lucy M ^a,b,c   Shai, Adam S ^d   Reeve, James E ^e   Anderson, Harry L ^e   Paulsen, Ole ^f   Larkum, Matthew E ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DENDRITE; DURA MATER; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP; WISTAR RAT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DENDRITES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; MICE; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84896690730     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3646     Document Type: Article

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