Analysis of cultured neuronal networks using intraburst firing characteristics

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1382-1390

  Stegenga, Jan ^a,b   Le Feber, Joost ^a   Marani, Enrico ^a,c   Rutten, Wim L C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b Leiden University Medical Center ^*  (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cultured neuronal networks; Functional connectivity; Multielectrode arrays (MEAs); Network bursts; Spontaneous activity

Indexed keywords

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; MICROELECTRODES; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

CULTURED NEURONAL NETWORKS; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; MULTIELECTRODE ARRAYS (MEA); NETWORK BURSTS; SPONTANEOUS ACTIVITY;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL CULTURE; ELECTRODE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; RAT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CELLS, CULTURED; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 41149142827     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2007.913987     Document Type: Article

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