A novel organotypic long-term culture of the rat hippocampus on substrate-integrated multielectrode arrays

Brain Research Protocols

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 229-242

  Egert, U ^a   Schlosshauer, B ^a   Fennrich, S ^a   Nisch, W ^a   Fejtl, M ^a   Knott, T ^a   Muller T ^a   Hammerle H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Correlation analysis; Hippocampus; Multielectrode array; Organotypic long term culture; Paired pulse facilitation; Photolithography; Plasticity; Rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MICROELECTRODES; NERVE NET; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031780980     PISSN: 1385299X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1385-299X(98)00013-0     Document Type: Article

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