An organotypic brain slice preparation from adult patients with temporal lobe epilepsy

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 235, Issue , 2014, Pages 234-244

  Eugène, Emmanuel ^a,b   Cluzeaud, Françoise ^c   Cifuentes Diaz, Carmen ^a,b   Fricker, Desdemona ^a   Le Duigou, Caroline ^a   Clemenceau, Stephane ^a   Baulac, Michel ^a   Poncer, Jean Christophe ^a,b   Miles, Richard ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b INSTITUT DU FER À MOULIN   (France)

^c BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Defined medium; Epilepsy; Hippocampus; Human; Organotypic culture

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CONVULSANT AGENT; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; AMINO ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CULTURE MEDIUM; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CULTURE MEDIUM; DENTATE GYRUS; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPAL CA2 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MESIAL TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBICULUM; TISSUE PREPARATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP; DRUG EFFECTS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MICROELECTRODE; MIDDLE AGED; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME FACTOR; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CULTURE MEDIA; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; GABA ANTAGONISTS; GABAERGIC NEURONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROELECTRODES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84926143122     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2014.07.009     Document Type: Article

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