Enduring Effects of Early Life Stress on Firing Patterns of Hippocampal and Thalamocortical Neurons in Rats: Implications for Limbic Epilepsy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Ali, Idrish ^a   O'Brien, Patrick ^a   Kumar, Gaurav ^a   Zheng, Thomas ^a   Jones, Nigel C ^a   Pinault, Didier ^b,c   French, Chris ^a   Morris, Margaret J ^d   Salzberg, Michael R ^a   O'Brien, Terence J ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b and Pathophysiology of Schizophrenia   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^e ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY LIFE STRESS; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; KINDLING; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEUROLEPTANALGESIA; NONHUMAN; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS; THALAMUS RETICULAR NUCLEUS; ACTION POTENTIAL; AGE; ANIMAL; ANXIETY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; LIMBIC CORTEX; NERVE CELL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL ISOLATION; WISTAR RAT;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; ELECTRODES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; LIMBIC LOBE; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; THALAMUS;

EID: 84879165822     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066962     Document Type: Article

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