Glutamate-Bound NMDARs Arising from In Vivo-like Network Activity Extend Spatio-temporal Integration in a L5 Cortical Pyramidal Cell Model

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Farinella, Matteo ^a   Ruedt, Daniel T ^a   Gleeson, Padraig ^a   Lanore, Frederic ^a   Silver, R Angus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; NEURONS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CELL MODEL; CELL/B.E; DENDRITICS; IN-VIVO; NETWORK ACTIVITIES; NMDA RECEPTOR; PYRAMIDAL CELL; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; SYNAPTIC INPUT; TEMPORAL INTEGRATION;

INTEGRATION;

GLUTAMIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL REGENERATION; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENDRITE; INTERNEURON; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RECEPTOR BINDING; SYNAPSE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; DENDRITES; GLUTAMIC ACID; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84901358840     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003590     Document Type: Article

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