Activity of ventral medial thalamic neurons during absence seizures and modulation of cortical paroxysms by the nigrothalamic pathway

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 929-941

  Paz, Jeanne Tamar ^a,b   Chavez, Mario ^c   Saillet, Sandrine ^a,b,c   Deniau, Jean Michel ^a,b   Charpier, Stéphane ^a,b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Absence epilepsy; Basal ganglia; GAERS; In vivo; Substantia nigra pars reticulate; Ventral medial thalamic nucleus

Indexed keywords

KYNURENIC ACID;

ABSENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; FEMALE; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPIKE WAVE; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; FEMALE; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RATS, WISTAR; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; VENTRAL THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 33846573828     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4677-06.2007     Document Type: Article

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