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NeuronDB provides a dynamically searchable database of three types of neuronal properties: voltage gated conductances, neurotransmitter receptors, and neurotransmitter substances. It contains tools that provide for integration of these properties in a given type of neuron and compartment, and for comparison of properties across different types of neurons and compartments. Read the tutorial for searching for Neuron Properties in NeuronDB

This resource is intended to:

Support the genomics and proteomics of neuron types
Support research on neuron properties
Facilitate the creation of computational neuronal models
Identify receptors across neuron types to aid in drug development
Serve as a teaching aid

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Neuron List Alphabetically
Neuron List By Brain Regions
Membrane Properties Comprehensive Inventory: Channels, Receptors, Neurotransmitters/Neuromodulators
Membrane Properties for NeuronDB: Currents, Receptors, Neurotransmitters/Neuromodulators
Canonical forms of neurons (see explanation)
Bibliographic citations

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This database is being developed by Luis N. Marenco², Chiquito Crasto², Prakash M. Nadkarni², Perry L. Miller² and Gordon M. Shepherd¹, ¹Section of Neurobiology, ²Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510.

Some of the data, together with the graphics on the NeuronDB banner, are taken from The Synaptic Organization of the Brain, edited by G.M. Shepherd, New York: Oxford University Press (Second to Fourth Editions: 1979, 1990, 1998).

Supported by NIDCD, NASA, & NIMH (Human Brain Project) and the National Library of Medicine's IAIMS Program.

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