A reliable method for intracranial electrode implantation and chronic electrical stimulation in the mouse brain

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Jeffrey, Melanie ^a,b,d   Lang, Min ^a   Gane, Jonathan ^a   Wu, Chiping ^a,d   Burnham, W McIntyre ^b,d   Zhang, Liang ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b Department of Pharmacology ^*  (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Glue; Kindling; Mice

Indexed keywords

ACRYLIC ACID; GLUE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CORTICAL ELECTRODE; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; IMPLANTATION; KINDLING; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SEIZURE;

ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SEIZURES;

EID: 84881031919     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-14-82     Document Type: Article

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