Cellular effects of acute direct current stimulation: Somatic and synaptic terminal effects

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 591, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2563-2578

  Rahman, Asif ^a   Reato, Davide ^a   Arlotti, Mattia ^b   Gasca, Fernando ^c   Datta, Abhishek ^d   Parra, Lucas C ^a   Bikson, Marom ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^d and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE ENDING; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SYNAPTIC EFFICACY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR CORTEX; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84877817785     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2012.247171     Document Type: Article

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