Layer-specific pathways for the horizontal propagation of epileptiform discharges in neocortex

Epilepsia

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 700-708

  Telfeian, Albert E ^b   Connors, Barry W ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain slice; Epilepsy; GABA; Layer 5; Neocortex; Picrotoxin; Somatosensory

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; PENTOBARBITAL; PICROTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; GABA ANTAGONISTS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEOCORTEX; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PICROTOXIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 0031852358     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1998.tb01154.x     Document Type: Article

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