Instability of dentate gyrus field potentials in awake and anesthetized rats

Hippocampus

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 333-339

  Rick, John Th ^a   Milgram, Norton W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Baseline drift; Hippocampus; Neural plasticity; Stability; Urethane

Indexed keywords

URETHAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PERFORANT NERVE TRACT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPIKE WAVE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WAKEFULNESS;

ANESTHETICS; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MALE; PERFORANT PATHWAY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0032973811     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1063(1999)9:3<333::AID-HIPO12>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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