Columnar activity supports propagation of population bursts in slices of rat entorhinal cortex

Brain Research

Volumn 830, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 274-284

  Stewart, Mark ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical circuitry; Epilepsy; Retrohippocampal region

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; AMPA RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM CONDUCTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SPATIAL SUMMATION; TEMPORAL SUMMATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPILEPSY; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; OSCILLOMETRY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0033526582     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(99)01404-3     Document Type: Article

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