Impairment of cortical GABAergic synaptic transmission in an environmental rat model of autism

International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1309-1318

  Banerjee, Anwesha ^a   García Oscos, Francisco ^a   Roychowdhury, Swagata ^a   Galindo, Luis C ^b   Hall, Shawn ^a   Kilgard, Michael P ^a   Atzori, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

ASD; interneurons; patch clamp; temporal cortex; VPA

Indexed keywords

GABOXADOL; OXOTREMORINE; VALPROIC ACID; ZOLPIDEM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC CURRENT; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; ANTIMANIC AGENTS; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BIOPHYSICS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GABA AGENTS; GABAERGIC NEURONS; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MALE; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VALPROIC ACID;

EID: 84878821793     PISSN: 14611457     EISSN: 14695111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1461145712001216     Document Type: Article

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