Action potentials and relations to the theta rhythm of medial septal neurons in vivo

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 244-258

  Brazhnik, E S ^a,b   Fox, S E ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BIOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Freely moving rats; GABA; Hippocampal theta rhythm; Medial septal neurons

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; URETHAN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE NUCLEUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HIPPOCAMPUS THETA RHYTHM; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEPTUM NUCLEUS; SPIKE WAVE; WAKEFULNESS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; ATROPINE; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GABA ANTAGONISTS; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTRACELLULAR FLUID; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCARINIC ANTAGONISTS; NEURONS; PICROTOXIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEPTAL NUCLEI; THETA RHYTHM; URETHANE;

EID: 0032808443     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050794     Document Type: Article

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