Persistent barrage firing in cortical interneurons can be induced in vivo and may be important for the suppression of epileptiform activity

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Suzuki, Norimitsu ^a   Tang, Clara S M ^a,b   Bekkers, John M ^a  

^a Australian National University   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action potential; Inhibition; Interneuron; Neurogliaform; Patch clamp; Piriform cortex; Seizure; Synapse

Indexed keywords

EID: 84918535772     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2014.00076     Document Type: Article

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