Propagation of spike and wave activity to the medial prefrontal cortex and dorsal raphe nucleus of WAG/Rij rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 90, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 318-324

  Lörincz, Magor ^a   Oláh, Márta ^a   Baracskay, Péter ^a   Szilágyi, Nora ^a   Juhász, Gábor ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Absence epilepsy; Action potential; Local field potential; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN;

ABSENCE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROLEPTANALGESIA; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SPIKE WAVE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; WISTAR ALBINO GLAXO RAT;

EID: 33846680019     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2006.09.020     Document Type: Article

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