Dendritic Spikes Veto Inhibition
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How inhibition regulates dendritic excitability is critical to an understanding of the way neurons integrate the many thousands of synaptic inputs they receive. In this issue of Neuron, Müller et al. (2012) show that inhibition blocks the generation of weak dendritic spikes, leaving strong dendritic spikes intact.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Neuron
دوره 75 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2012