Dendritic Inhibitory Synapses Punch above Their Weight
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Müllner et al. (2015) show that single inhibitory synapses placed in the right location on the dendritic tree can exert a powerful impact on backpropagating action potentials in hippocampal pyramidal neurons by controlling local Ca(2+) influx with μm and ms precision.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Neuron
دوره 87 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015