Spatial and temporal plasticity of synaptic organization in anterior cingulate cortex following peripheral inflammatory pain: Multi-electrode array recordings in rats

Neuroscience Bulletin

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-20

  Lu, Yun Fei ^a,b   Wang, Yan ^a,b   He, Ying ^c   Zhang, Fu Kang ^c   He, Ting ^a,b   Wang, Rui Rui ^a,b,c   Chen, Xue Feng ^a,b   Yang, Fei ^a,b   Gong, Ke Rui ^c   Chen, Jun ^a,b,c  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PLA   (China)

^c CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

anterior cingulate cortex; intracortical synaptic organization; multi electrode array; pain; synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; INFLAMMATORY PAIN; LOCAL FIELD POTENTIAL; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; RAT; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GYRUS CINGULI; INFLAMMATION; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MICROELECTRODES; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PAIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84895829166     PISSN: 16737067     EISSN: 19958218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12264-013-1344-9     Document Type: Article

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