Reduced chaos of interspike interval of midbrain dopaminergic neurons in aged rats

Neuroscience

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1003-1008

  Di Mascio, M ^a   Di Giovanni, G ^a   Di Matteo, V ^a   Esposito, E ^a  

^a MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aging; Burst analysis; Chaos analysis; Dopaminergic cells; Electrophysiology; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPIKE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

AGING; ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0032973436     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(98)00702-7     Document Type: Article

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