Recurrently connected and localized neuronal communities initiate coordinated spontaneous activity in neuronal networks

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2017, Pages

  Lonardoni, Davide ^a   Amin, Hayder ^a   Di Marco, Stefano ^a,b   Maccione, Alessandro ^a   Berdondini, Luca ^a   Nieus, Thierry ^a,c  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; DIGITAL STORAGE; NEURAL NETWORKS;

3-D NEURONAL CULTURES; ACTIVITY-DEPENDENT; BRAIN CIRCUITS; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; LOCALISED; NEURONAL NETWORKS; NEURONAL SYSTEMS; OR-NETWORKS; SPONTANEOUS ACTIVITY;

NEURONS;

AMPA RECEPTOR;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FIRING RATE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPIKE WAVE; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; HIPPOCAMPUS; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; RATS;

EID: 85026666149     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005672     Document Type: Article

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