Analysing functional connectivity in brain slices by a combination of infrared video microscopy, flash photolysis of caged compounds and scanning methods

Neuroscience

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 265-277

  Kotter R ^a   Staiger, J F ^a   Zilles, K ^a   Luhmann, H J ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Caged glutamate; In vitro; Infrared video microscopy; Microcircuitry; Rat somatosensory cortex; Xenon flash photolysis

Indexed keywords

BICUCULLINE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; XENON;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; MICROSCOPY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PHOTOLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIDEORECORDING;

2-AMINO-5-PHOSPHONOVALERATE; ANIMALS; BICUCULLINE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; GLUTAMIC ACID; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; PHOTOLYSIS; QUINOXALINES; RATS; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 0142143738     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(98)00010-4     Document Type: Article

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