Synaptic mechanisms for generating temporal diversity of auditory representation in the dorsal cochlear nucleus

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1358-1368

  Zhou, Mu ^a,b   Li, Ya Tang ^a,b   Yuan, Wei ^a,c   Tao, Huizhong W ^a,b   Zhang, Li I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Central auditory pathway; Excitatory inhibitory balance; In vivo whole cell recording; Synaptic input; Voltage clamp

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COCHLEAR NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; FEMALE; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SPINDLE CELL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TEMPORAL CORTEX; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CYTOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HEARING; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FEMALE; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84923888431     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00573.2014     Document Type: Article

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