Spontaneous coordinated activity in cultured networks: Analysis of multiple ignition sites, primary circuits, and burst phase delay distributions

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 346-357

  Ham, Michael I ^a,b   Bettencourt, Luis M ^b,c   McDaniel, Floyd D ^a   Gross, Guenter W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Burst leaders; Burst patterns; Hierarchical connectivity; Population responses; Primary cultures; Spontaneous activity

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; DELAY CIRCUITS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MICROELECTRODES; TIMING CIRCUITS;

BURST LEADER; BURST PATTERNS; COORDINATED ACTIVITY; DELAY DISTRIBUTIONS; HIERARCHICAL CONNECTIVITY; PHASE DELAY; POPULATION RESPONSE; PRIMARY CIRCUITS; PRIMARY CULTURE; SPONTANEOUS ACTIVITY;

NEURONS;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; EMBRYO; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROELECTRODE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 42549168643     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10827-007-0059-1     Document Type: Article

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