Developmental changes in electrophysiological properties and a transition from electrical to chemical coupling between excitatory layer 4 neurons in the rat barrel cortex

Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Volumn 10, Issue JAN, 2016, Pages

  Valiullina, Fliza ^a   Akhmetshina, Dinara ^a   Nasretdinov, Azat ^a   Mukhtarov, Marat ^a   Valeeva, Guzel ^a   Khazipov, Roustem ^a,b,c   Rozov, Andrei ^a,d  

^a KAZAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Barrel cortex; Critical period; Development; Excitation; Gap junctions

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; IN VITRO STUDY; MATURATION; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NEOCORTICAL SLICE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSE; AGE; ANIMAL; BIOPHYSICS; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NERVE ENDING; NEWBORN; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIOPHYSICAL PHENOMENA; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; IN VITRO TECHNIQUES; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84957876066     PISSN: 16625110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2016.00001     Document Type: Article

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