A supercritical density of Na+ channels ensures fast signaling in GABAergic interneuron axons

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 686-693

  Hu, Hua ^a   Jonas, Peter ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURON; LATENT PERIOD; MYELINATION; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; NONMYELINATED NERVE; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SODIUM CONDUCTANCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AXONS; BIOPHYSICS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; GABAERGIC NEURONS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; PARVALBUMINS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; SODIUM CHANNELS; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 84899649019     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3678     Document Type: Article

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