The influence of (±)-kavain on population spikes and long-term potentiation in guinea pig hippocampal slices

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 545-549

  Langosch, J M ^a   Normann, C ^a   Schirrmacher, K ^b   Berger, M ^a   Walden, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

( ) Kavin; CA 1; Field potentials; Guinea pig; Hippocampus; Long term potentiation; Piper methysticum Forst.; Synaptic transmission

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; BENZODIAZEPINE RECEPTOR; KAVA; KAWAIN; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; PLANT EXTRACT; PYRONE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; GUINEA PIG; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; SPIKE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; EVOKED RESPONSE; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUE; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALIA; CAVIA; CAVIA PORCELLUS; HIPPOCAMPUS HIPPOCAMPUS; PIPER METHYSTICUM; SUS SCROFA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GUINEA PIGS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PLANT EXTRACTS; PYRONES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0031595709     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(98)10064-8     Document Type: Article

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