A multi-slice recording system for stable late phase hippocampal long-term potentiation experiments

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 194, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 394-401

  Kroker, Katja Sabine ^a   Rosenbrock, Holger ^a   Rast, Georg ^a  

^a BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM PHARMA GMBH AND CO KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain slices; Drug screening; Extracellular recording; FEPSP; Hippocampus; Long term potentiation; Multi slice recording; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN SLICE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GRAVITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING;

6-CYANO-7-NITROQUINOXALINE-2,3-DIONE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 78650515288     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2010.11.006     Document Type: Article

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