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Drumond,L.E.; Kushmerick,C.; Guidine,P.A.M.; Doretto,M.C.; Moraes,M.F.D.; Massensini,A.R.. |
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder associated with excitatory and inhibitory imbalance within the underlying neural network. This study evaluated inhibitory γ-amino-butyric acid (GABA)ergic modulation in the CA1 region of the hippocampus of male Wistar rats and Wistar audiogenic rats (aged 90 ± 3 days), a strain of inbred animals susceptible to audiogenic seizures. Field excitatory postsynaptic potentials and population spike complexes in response to Schaffer collateral fiber stimulation were recorded in hippocampal slices before and during application of picrotoxin (50 µM, 60 min), a GABA A antagonist, and the size of the population spike was quantified by measuring its amplitude and slope. In control audiogenic-resistant Wistar rats (N = 9), picrotoxin... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Epilepsy; Extracellular recording; GABA; Hippocampus; Wistar audiogenic rats; Picrotoxin. |
Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2011001000011 |
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