Network activity and spike discharge oscillations in cortical slice cultures from neonatal rat

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 375-388

  Czarnecki, Antonny ^a,b,c,d   Tscherter, Anne ^a   Streit, Jürg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Groupe Enzymologie Moléculaire et Fonctionnelle   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Cortical interneurons; Fast spiking neurons; Neuronal avalanches; NMDA; Regular spiking neurons

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SLICE; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; GAP JUNCTION; GROUPS BY AGE; HYPERPOLARIZATION; INTERNEURON; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PATCH CLAMP; POPULATION BURST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPIKE; SPIKE DISCHARGE OSCILLATION; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; THETA RHYTHM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PERIODICITY; RATS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84856460933     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07966.x     Document Type: Article

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