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H Karst1, M Joëls, W J Wadman.
Abstract
The patch-clamp technique was employed in hippocampal slices to examine the characteristics of a low-threshold Ca current in adult CA1 pyramidal neurons. We found that adult CA1 pyramidal neurons possess a distinct transient low-threshold Ca current, located predominantly in the distal dendrites. Surgical cuts that separated the dendrites from the soma and left a dendritic length of 150 microns, completely abolished the low-threshold Ca current while a transient K current persisted even in cells with dendrites as short as 50 microns. The transient low-threshold Ca current in dendrites may represent a voltage-dependent Ca entry pathway which contributes to the regulation of cellular excitability, plasticity and pathology.Entities:
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Year: 1993 PMID: 8152592 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(93)90880-t
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Neurosci Lett ISSN: 0304-3940 Impact factor: 3.046