Voltage and calcium transients in basal dendrites of the rat prefrontal cortex
Milojkovic B, Zhou W, Antic S. Voltage and calcium transients in basal dendrites of the rat prefrontal cortex. The Journal Of Physiology 2007, 585: 447-468. PMID: 17932150, PMCID: PMC2375496, DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2007.142315.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDendritic plateau potentialsCalcium transientsPlateau potentialsBasal dendritesDendritic branchesSmall-amplitude depolarizationThin basal dendritesDendritic calcium transientsGlutamatergic synaptic inputsDendritic calcium dynamicsRat prefrontal cortexHigher cortical functionsThin dendritic branchesNeocortical pyramidal cellsSame dendritic branchCalcium distributionDendritic excitabilitySynaptic contactsIndividual dendritic branchesExcitatory inputsPyramidal cellsCortical functionSynaptic inputsSame dendriteSynaptic integration