Cellular mechanisms of gamma rhythms in rat neocortical brain slices probed by the volatile anaesthetic isoflurane

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 231, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 87-90

  Antkowiak, Bernd ^a   Hentschke, Harald ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

'40 Hz' rhythms; Consciousness; GABA(A) receptor; General anaesthesia; Patch clamp; Synaptic inhibition

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; ISOFLURANE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATORY POTENTIAL; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION;

ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ISOFLURANE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PERIODICITY; RATS;

EID: 0030930288     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00546-6     Document Type: Article

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