Ion channel degeneracy enables robust and tunable neuronal Firing rates

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 38, 2015, Pages E5361-E5370

  Drion, Guillaume ^a   O'Leary, Timothy ^a   Marder, Eve ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bifurcation; FI curve; Reduced neuron model; Type I excitability; Type II excitability

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL; ION; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; CONFERENCE PAPER; FIRING RATE; ION CURRENT; NERVE CELL; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; IONS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 84942930173     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1516400112     Document Type: Article

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