Spontaneous neuronal burst discharges as dependent and independent variables in the maturation of cerebral cortex tissue cultured in vitro: A review of activity-dependent studies in live 'model' systems for the development of intrinsically generated bioelectric slow-wave sleep patterns

Brain Research Reviews

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 221-244

  Corner, Michael A ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortex; Glutamate receptor; Physiological homeostasis; Slow wave sleep; Spike train analysis; Synaptic inhibition; Tetrodotoxin; Tissue culture

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; AMPA RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; TETRODOTOXIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; BIOENERGY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MATURATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPIGENETICS; HUMAN; HYPERPOLARIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; SPIKE; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TISSUE CULTURE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; SLEEP;

EID: 53749093608     PISSN: 01650173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresrev.2008.08.001     Document Type: Review

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