Prenatal development of neural excitation in rat thalamocortical projections studied by optical recording

Neuroscience

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1231-1246

  Higashi, S ^a   Molnar Z ^a,b   Kurotani, T ^a,c   Toyama, K ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Optical recording; Somatosensory cortex; Subplate; Thalamocortical slice; Thalamus; Voltage sensitive dye

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; 6,7 DINITRO 2,3 QUINOXALINEDIONE; BROXURIDINE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SLICE; CAPSULA INTERNA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATION; FEMALE; NERVE CELL; NISSL STAINING; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; FETUS; GLUTAMIC ACID; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VENTRAL THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 0037121630     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(02)00418-9     Document Type: Article

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