Carbon nanotubes exert basic excitatory enhancement in rat brain slices

Acta Biologica Hungarica

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 137-151

  Varró, Petra ^a,b   Szigyártó, Imola ^b   Gergely, A ^c   Kálmán, Erika ^c   Világi, Ildikó ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c CHEMICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; field potentials; hippocampus; neocortex; rat

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE; MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MEMBRANE; COLLOID; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXCITABILITY; EXCITATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; ION CHANNEL GATING; ION CHANNELS; MALE; MICRODISSECTION; NANOTUBES, CARBON; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPTIC POTENTIALS;

RATTUS;

EID: 84878810675     PISSN: 02365383     EISSN: 1588256X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/ABiol.64.2013.2.1     Document Type: Article

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