The effect of slow electrical stimuli to achieve learning in cultured networks of rat cortical neurons

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Le Feber, Joost ^a   Stegenga, Jan ^a   Rutten, Wim L C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; LEARNING; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL BALANCE; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ANIMAL; BRAIN CORTEX; CYTOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES; LEARNING; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 77749258217     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008871     Document Type: Article

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