Organotypic slice cultures containing the preBötzinger complex generate respiratory-like rhythms

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 1063-1070

  Phillips, Wiktor S ^a,b   Herly, Mikkel ^a   Del Negro, Christopher A ^b   Rekling, Jens C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Breathing; Central pattern generator; Organotypic slice cultures; PreB tzinger complex; Respiration; Rhythm generation; Rhythmogenesis

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; FLUORESCENT DYE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN STEM; BREATHING; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL CULTURE; CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATOR; CEREBELLAR SLICE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROPORATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ORGANOTYPIC SLICE CULTURE; OSCILLATION; PREBOTZINGER COMPLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY RHYTHM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SLICE CULTURE; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; CELL RESPIRATION; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BRAIN STEM; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL RESPIRATION; CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATORS; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MICE; NEURONS; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84958787093     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00904.2015     Document Type: Article

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