Recording, analysis, and function of dendritic voltage-gated channels.
Ever since the publication of the Hamill et al. [Hamill et al., Pflügers Arch, 391:85-100, 1981] paper and the following increase in popularity of acute brain slice preparations, there has been a large increase in the volume of publications investigating voltage-gated channels in the central nervous system using the patch-clamp technique. In the preceding decade, investigations of voltage-gated channels have moved out of the somatic region into dendrites providing much needed information about dendritic voltage-gated channels. In this study, we review some aspects related to the investigation of voltage-gated ion channels in dendrites: recording, analysis, and function.
Gurkiewicz
Meron
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The Mina and Everand Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences and the Leslie and Susan Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 52900, Israel.
Korngreen
Alon
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D000200:Action Potentials / Q000502:physiology; D000818:Animals; D003712:Dendrites / Q000502:physiology*; D004594:Electrophysiology; D007473:Ion Channels / Q000502:physiology; D018408:Patch-Clamp Techniques / Q000379:methods; D024642:Potassium Channels, Voltage-Gated / Q000502:physiology*; D017966:Pyramidal Cells / Q000502:physiology; D051381:Rats
D007473:Ion Channels; D024642:Potassium Channels, Voltage-Gated