Action potential waveform variability limits multi-unit separation in freely behaving rats

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Stratton, Peter ^a   Cheung, Allen ^a   Wiles, Janet ^a   Kiyatkin, Eugene ^b   Sah, Pankaj ^a   Windels, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED RESPONSE; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IONTOPHORESIS; MALE; MESENCEPHALIC TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; PRETECTUM; RAT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPIKE WAVE; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA PARS COMPACTA; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA PARS RETICULATA; WAKEFULNESS; WAVEFORM; ZONA INCERTA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; IONTOPHORESIS; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 84862206872     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038482     Document Type: Article

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