Experimental analysis and computational modeling of interburst intervals in spontaneous activity of cortical neuronal culture

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 105, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 197-210

  Gritsun, T ^a   Le Feber, J ^a   Stegenga, J ^a   Rutten, W L C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bimodal networks; Cultured neuronal networks; Interburst interval; Noise and pacemaker driven network Simulations; Random recurrent neuronal network models

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE NEURONS; BIMODAL DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTATIONAL MODELING; CORTICAL NETWORK; CULTURED NEURONAL NETWORKS; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; IN-VITRO; INTERBURST INTERVALS; IRREGULAR NETWORKS; MODEL SIMULATION; NETWORK MODELS; NEURONAL NETWORKS; NOISE- AND PACEMAKER-DRIVEN NETWORK SIMULATIONS; RHYTHMIC BURSTING; SMALL NETWORKS; SPONTANEOUS ACTIVITY; SUBTHRESHOLD; SYNAPTIC STRENGTHS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; SIGNAL ENCODING;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

IBIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL CULTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84856619952     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: 14320770     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00422-011-0457-3     Document Type: Article

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