Multi-walled carbon nanotube inhibits CA1 glutamatergic synaptic transmission in rat's hippocampal slices

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 229, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 423-429

  Chen, Ting ^a,c   Yang, Jiajia ^a   Zhang, Hui ^a   Ren, Guogang ^b   Yang, Zhuo ^a   Zhang, Tao ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF HEMATOLOGY AND BLOOD DISEASES HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Excitatory postsynaptic currents (EPSCs); Glutamatergic synaptic transmission; MWCNT; Paired pulse facilitation (PPF); Rat's hippocampal slices

Indexed keywords

EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC CURRENTS (EPSCS); GLUTAMATERGIC SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; MWCNT; PAIRED-PULSE FACILITATION (PPF); RAT'S HIPPOCAMPAL SLICES;

ANIMALS; CA1 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GLUTAMIC ACID; MALE; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84905394832     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: 18793169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2014.06.036     Document Type: Article

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