Substance identification by quantitative characterization of oscillatory activity in murine spinal cord networks on microelectrode arrays

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2815-2825

  Gramowski, Alexandra ^a,b   Jügelt, Konstantin ^a   Weiss, Dieter G ^a   Gross, Guenter W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

AMPA receptor; Bursting; Inhibition; NMDA receptor; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

2 AMINOPHOSPHONOVALERATE; 3 [3,5 BIS(TRIFLUOROMETHYL)BENZYLOXY] 2 PHENYLPIPERIDINE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 5,5 DIMETHYL 2 MORPHOLINEACETIC ACID; 6 NITRO 7 SULFAMOYLBENZO[F]QUINOXALINE 2,3 DIONE; ALPHA AMINO 3 HYDROXY 5 METHYL 4 ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; ALPHA METHYL 4 CARBOXYPHENYLGLYCINE; ATROPINE; BICUCULLINE; CURARE; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; HALOPERIDOL; METHYSERGIDE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; NEUROTRANSMITTER RECEPTOR; STRYCHNINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALERIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOSENSOR; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG IDENTIFICATION; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG SCREENING; ELECTRICITY; EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; MEASUREMENT; MICROELECTRODE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; RECORDING; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; CELLS, CULTURED; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMBRYO; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MICROELECTRODES; NERVE NET; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; RECEPTORS, NEUROTRANSMITTER; SPINAL CORD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 2942559178     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0953-816X.2004.03373.x     Document Type: Article

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