Inactivation of the somatosensory cortex prevents paroxysmal oscillations in cortical and related thalamic neurons in a genetic model of absence epilepsy

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2078-2091

  Polack, Pierre Olivier ^a,b   Mahon, Séverine ^a,b   Chavez, Mario ^c   Charpier, Stéphane ^a,b,d  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

^c Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Absence epilepsy; Cortical inactivation; In vivo; Somatosensory cortex; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

TETRODOTOXIN;

ABSENCE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; MALE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, TRANSGENIC; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS;

EID: 68749120843     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn237     Document Type: Article

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