Distal Spike Initiation Zone Location Estimation by Morphological Simulation of Ionic Current Filtering Demonstrated in a Novel Model of an Identified Drosophila Motoneuron

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Günay, Cengiz ^a   Sieling, Fred H ^a,c   Dharmar, Logesh ^a   Lin, Wei Hsiang ^b   Wolfram, Verena ^b   Marley, Richard ^b   Baines, Richard A ^b   Prinz, Astrid A ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Emory University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IONS; LOCATION;

CHANNEL CURRENTS; CURRENT FILTERING; DROSOPHILLA; IN-VIVO; INITIATION ZONE; ION CHANNEL; IONIC CURRENT; LOCATION ESTIMATION; MORPHOLOGICAL SIMULATION;

NEURONS;

POTASSIUM ION; SODIUM ION; ION CHANNEL;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CELL STRUCTURE; COMPARTMENT MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DROSOPHILA; IN VIVO STUDY; ION CURRENT; MOTONEURON; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM CURRENT; SIMULATION; SODIUM CURRENT; SPIKE INITIATION ZONE; SPIKE WAVE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; METABOLISM; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

INVERTEBRATA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICAL PHENOMENA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ION CHANNELS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84930607350     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004189     Document Type: Article

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