Development of low magnesium-induced spontaneous synchronized bursting and GABAergic modulation in cultured rat neocortical neurons

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 210, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 41-44

  Watanabe, Satoshi ^a   Jimbo, Yasuhiko ^b   Kamioka, Hiroyuki ^b   Kirino, Yutaka ^a   Kawana, Akio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NTT Basic Research Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bicuculline methiodide; Dissociated culture; Maturation; Multi site recording; Neocortex; Synchronization; Whole cell recording; Aminobutyric acid

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BICUCULLINE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FETUS; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

EID: 0029948569     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12653-7     Document Type: Article

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