An inside look at hippocampal silent cells

John E Ferguson; Jadin C Jackson; A David Redish

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2011.03.015

An inside look at hippocampal silent cells

Neuron. 2011 Apr 14;70(1):3-5. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.03.015.

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John E Ferguson¹, Jadin C Jackson, A David Redish

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¹ Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.

Abstract

Hippocampal pyramidal cells can be divided into place cells, which fire action potentials when an animal is in specific locations, and silent cells, which are not spatially selective. In this issue of Neuron, Epsztein et al. find intracellular differences between place and silent cells by using whole-cell recordings in freely moving rats.

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