Multiple-unit recordings during slow field-potential shifts in low-[Ca2+]o solutions in rat hippocampal and cortical slices

Neuroscience

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 107-118

  Patrylo, P R ^a   Kuhn, A J ^b   Schweitzer, J S ^a,c   Dudek, F E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ca2+; Hippocampus; Medial entorhinal cortex; Rat

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; POTASSIUM ION;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN SLICE; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NERVE CELL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE SUSCEPTIBILITY; SPIKE;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0029742643     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0306-4522(96)00111-X     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Aicardi J. (1986) Infantile spasms and related syndromes. In Epilepsy in Children (ed. Aicardi J.), pp. 17-38. Raven Press, New York.
2. Albala B. J., Moshe S. L. and Okada R. (1984) Kainic-acid induced seizures: a developmental study. Devl Brain Res. 13, 139-148.
3. Albrecht D. and Heinemann U. (1989) Low calcium-induced epileptiform activity in hippocampal slices from infant rats. Devl Brain Res. 48, 316-320.
4. Andrew R. D. (1991) Seizure and acute osmotic change: clinical and neurophysiological aspects. J. neurol. Sci. 101, 7-18.
5. Ballyk B. A., Quackenbush S. J. and Andrew R. D. (1991) Osmotic effects on the CA1 neuronal population in hippocampal slices with special reference to glucose. J. Neurophysiol. 65, 1055-1066.
6. Bouskila Y. and Dudek F. E. (1993) Neuronal synchronization without calcium-dependent synaptic transmission in the hypothalamus. Proc. Natn. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 90, 3207-3210.
7. Cavalheiro E. A., Silva D. F., Turski W. A., Calderazzo-Filho L. S., Bortolotto Z. A. and Turski L. (1987) The susceptibility of rats to pilocarpine-induced seizures is age-dependent. Devl Brain Res. 37, 43-58.
8. Collins R. C., Tearse R. G. and Lothman E. W. (1983) Functional anatomy of limbic seizures: focal discharges from medial entorhinal cortex in rat. Brain Res. 280, 25-40.
9. Dietzel I., Heinemann U., Hofmeier G. and Lux H. D. (1980) Transient changes in the size of the extracellular space in the sensorimotor cortex of cats in relation to stimulus-induced changes in potassium concentration. Expl Brain Res. 40, 432-439.
10. Dudek F. E., Obenaus A. and Tasker J. G. (1990) Osmolality-induced changes in extracellular volume alter epileptiform bursts independent of chemical synapses in the rat: importance of non-synaptic mechanisms in hippocampal epileptogenesis. Neurosci. Lett. 120, 267-270.
11. Dudek F. E., Snow R. W. and Taylor C. P. (1986) Role of electrical interactions in synchronization of epileptiform bursts. In Advances in Neurology (eds Delgado-Escueta A. V., Ward Jr A. A., Woodbury D. M. and Porter R. J.), Vol. 44, pp. 593-617. Raven Press, New York.
12. Erulkar S. D. and Rahamimoff R. (1978) The role of calcium ions in tetanic and post tetanic increase of miniature end-plate potential frequency. J. Physiol., Lond. 278, 501-511.
13. Frankenhaeuser B. and Hodgkin A. L. (1957) The action of calcium on the electrical properties of squid axons. J. Physiol., Lond. 137, 218-244.
14. Green J. (1969) The hippocampus. Physiol. Rev. 44, 561-608.
15. Haas H. L. and Jefferys J. G. R. (1984) Low-calcium field burst discharges of CA1 pyramidal neurons in rat hippocampal slices. J. Physiol., Lond. 354, 185-201.
16. Hablitz J. J. (1987) Spontaneous ictal-like discharges and sustained potential shifts in the developing rat neocortex. J. Neurophysiol. 58, 1052-1065.