Single-unit Analysis of Substantia Nigra Pars Reticulata Neurons in Freely Behaving Rats with Genetic Absence Epilepsy

Epilepsia

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1513-1520

  Deransart, Colin ^a,b   Hellwig, Bernhard ^a   Heupel Reuter, Miriam ^a   Léger, Jean François ^a   Heck, Detlef ^a   Lücking, Carl Hermann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Absence epilepsy; Freely moving; Multi unit recordings; Substantia nigra pars reticulate; Tetrode

Indexed keywords

ABSENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; GENETIC DISORDER; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPIKE WAVE; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA PARS RETICULATA;

ANIMALS; BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN MAPPING; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; EVOKED POTENTIALS; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

EID: 0346103741     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-9580.2003.26603.x     Document Type: Article

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