Medial amygdala stimulation produces a long-lasting excitatory postsynaptic potential/spike dissociation in the dentate gyms in vivo

Brain Research

Volumn 794, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 151-154

  Noguchi, Kengo ^a   Saito, Hiroshi ^a   Abe, Kazuho ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dentate gyrus; Long term potentiation; Medial amygdala; Picrotoxin; Population excitatory postsynaptic potential; Population spike

Indexed keywords

PICROTOXIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPIKE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GABA ANTAGONISTS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; PICROTOXIN; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0032565713     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)00210-8     Document Type: Article

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