Astrocyte- neuron interaction as a mechanism responsible for generation of neural synchrony: A study based on modeling and experiments

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 489-504

  Amiri, Mahmood ^a,b,c   Hosseinmardi, Narges ^d   Bahrami, Fariba ^b   Janahmadi, Mahyar ^d  

^a RAZI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c KERMANSHAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; Functional modeling; Neural population model; Neural synchrony

Indexed keywords

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ASTROCYTE; FUNCTIONAL MODELLING; MINIMAL NETWORKS; MODELLING AND EXPERIMENTS; NEURAL POPULATION MODEL; NEURAL POPULATIONS; NEURAL SYNCHRONIZATION; NEURAL SYNCHRONY; POPULATION MODEL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

NEURONS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; CYTOSOL; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NERVE CELL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SIMULATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84877755170     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: 15736873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10827-012-0432-6     Document Type: Article

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