Changes in extracellular action potential detect kainic acid and trimethyltin toxicity in hippocampal slice preparations earlier than do MAP2 density measurements

Alternatives to Laboratory Animals

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 379-386

  Melani, Raffaella ^a   Rebaudo, Renata ^a   Noraberg, Jens ^b   Zimmer, Jens ^b   Balestrino, Maurizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Brain slices; Electrophysiology; In vitro; Kainic acid; MAP2; Neurotoxicity; Population spike; Trimethyltin

Indexed keywords

KAINIC ACID; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 2; TRIMETHYLTIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITOMETRY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN VITRO STUDY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 24944513411     PISSN: 02611929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/026119290503300409     Document Type: Article

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