Orchestration of "presto" and "largo" synchrony in up-down activity of cortical networks

Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Volumn 4, Issue APR, 2010, Pages

  Gullo, Francesca ^a   Mazzetti, Samanta ^a   Maffezzoli, Andrea ^a   Dossi, Elena ^a   Lecchi, Marzia ^a   Amadeo, Alida ^b   Krajewski, Jeffrey ^c   Wanke, Enzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c Icagen Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Bursts; GABA; Ih channels; Im channels; INaP channels; MEA recording; Synchrony

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956288413     PISSN: 16625110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2010.00011     Document Type: Article

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