Central nervous tissue: An excitable medium. A study using the retinal spreading depression as a tool

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1864, 2008, Pages 359-368

  Hanke, Wolfgang ^a   De Lima, Vera Maura Fernandes ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Excitable media; Retinal spreading depression; Small external forces

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; NEUROLOGY; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; SPREADING DEPRESSION (SD); VIDEO IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

TISSUE;

AMINO ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; AMINO ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; KETAMINE; N METHYLASPARTIC ACID;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; DRUG EFFECT; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; SPREADING CORTICAL DEPRESSION; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; KETAMINE; N-METHYLASPARTATE; RETINA; SPREADING CORTICAL DEPRESSION; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 37549041765     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2007.2094     Document Type: Article

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