Dynamics of electrical transmission at club endings on the Mauthner cells

Brain Research Reviews

Volumn 47, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 227-244

  Pereda, Alberto E ^a   Rash, John E ^b   Nagy, James I ^c   Bennett, Michael V L ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Auditory; Connexin35; Connexin36; Dopamine; Electrical Coupling; Electrical synapse; Excitable membranes and synaptic transmission; Gap junction; Long term potentiation; NMDA; Other ion channels; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 35; CONNEXIN 36; DOPAMINE; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL STRUCTURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; GAP JUNCTION; MAUTHNER CELL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; CONNEXINS; EYE PROTEINS; FISHES; GAP JUNCTIONS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RETICULAR FORMATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 9644254479     PISSN: 01650173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresrev.2004.06.010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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