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Functional Calcium Imaging in Developing Cortical Networks
Published on: October 22, 2011
Effects of extracellular calcium on the volley activity of entorhinal cortex neurons in neonatal rats: computer
1Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. sherozia@yandex.ru
Neuroscience and Behavioral Physiology
|December 17, 2009
Abstract:
The calcium-dependent volley activity of neurons in the entorhinal cortex of neonatal rats increased when the extracellular Ca(2+) concentration decreased from 2 to 1 mM. This may be associated with changes in the properties of the slow sodium current. Computer simulation of volley neurons using a model including a relationship between the slow sodium current and extracellular Ca(2+) supported this suggestion.

