Thalamocortical relationships and network synchronization in a new genetic model "in mirror" for absence epilepsy

Brain Research

Volumn 1525, Issue , 2013, Pages 39-52

  Gigout, Sylvain ^a   Louvel, Jacques ^a   Rinaldi, Daisy ^b   Martin, Benoît ^c   Pumain, René ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b INSTITUT DU CERVEAU ET DE LA MOELLE ÉPINIÈRE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

4 Aminopyridine; Absence epilepsy; Carbenoxolone; Gap junctions; Mice; Thalamocortical slices

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOPYRIDINE; CARBENOXOLONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FACILITATION; GAP JUNCTION; GENETIC MODEL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS; THALAMUS RETICULAR NUCLEUS; WHITE MATTER;

3,3-(2-CARBOXYPIPERAZINE-4-YL)-PROPYLPHOSPHONATE; 4-AMINOPYRIDINE; 4AP; 6-CYANO-7-NITRO-QUINOXALINE-2,3-DIONE DISODIUM SALT; ABSENCE EPILEPSY; ACSF; ARTIFICIAL CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; BR/ORL; BS/ORL; CARBENOXOLONE; CBX; CNQX; CORTICAL RESPONSES TO THALAMIC STIMULATIONS; CPP; CRTS; DII; EPILEPTIC MICE; GAERS; GAP JUNCTIONS; GENETIC ABSENCE EPILEPSY RAT FROM STRASBOURG; GJ; ICTAL-LIKE ACTIVITIES; ILA; KYN; KYNURENIC ACID; MICE; NON-EPILEPTIC MICE; NRT; NUCLEUS RETICULARIS THALAMI; PERCHLORATE OF 1,1′-DIOCTADECYL-3,3,3′,3′-TETRAMETHYLINDOCARBOCYANINE; SPIKE-WAVE DISCHARGES; SWD; THALAMIC RESPONSES TO CORTICAL STIMULATIONS; THALAMOCORTICAL SLICES; TRCS; VB; VENTROBASAL THALAMUS;

ANIMALS; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; NEOCORTEX; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; THALAMUS;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 84880329998     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2013.05.044     Document Type: Article

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