Independent epileptiform discharge patterns in the olfactory and limbic areas of the in vitro isolated guinea pig brain during 4-aminopyridine treatment

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2728-2736

  Carriero, Giovanni ^a   Uva, Laura ^a   Gnatkovsky, Vadym ^a   Avoli, Massimo ^b,c   De Curtis, Marco ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; 4 AMINOPYRIDINE; 6,7 DINITRO 2,3 QUINOXALINEDIONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ENCEPHALE ISOLE; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; GUINEA PIG; HEMISPHERE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN VITRO STUDY; LIMBIC CORTEX; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY CORTEX; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIFORM CORTEX; SPIKE;

2-AMINO-5-PHOSPHONOVALERATE; 4-AMINOPYRIDINE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPILEPSY; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; GUINEA PIGS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; PERIODICITY; QUINOXALINES; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SEIZURES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77952968023     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00862.2009     Document Type: Article

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