Emergence of Assortative Mixing between Clusters of Cultured Neurons

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Teller, Sara ^a   Granell, Clara ^b   De Domenico, Manlio ^b   Soriano, Jordi ^a   Gómez, Sergio ^b   Arenas, Alex ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; COMPLEX NETWORKS; MIXING;

ACTIVITY PATTERNS; ASSORTATIVE MIXING; BETWEEN CLUSTERS; CULTURED NEURONS; FAST ACTIVATION; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; IN-VIVO; NEURONAL SYSTEMS; NEURONAL TISSUES; TIME-DELAYS;

NEURONS;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CALCULATION; CELL ADHESION; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL DAMAGE; CELL LABELING; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; RAT; RESTING STATE NETWORK; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84907588717     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003796     Document Type: Article

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