Spontaneous periodic synchronized bursting during formation of mature patterns of connections in cortical cultures

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 206, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 109-112

  Kamioka, Hiroyuki ^a   Maeda, Eisaku ^a   Jimbo, Yasuhiko ^a   Robinson, Hugh P C ^b   Kawana, Akio ^a  

^a Kashino Diverse Brain Research Laboratory of NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chronic inhibition; Cortical dissociate culture; Maturation; Neuronal activity; Neuronal development; Periodic synchronized bursting; Synapse formation; Tetrodotoxin

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; 6 CYANO 7 NITRO 2,3 QUINOXALINEDIONE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; MUSCIMOL; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMBRYO; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0029962770     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(96)12448-4     Document Type: Article

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