Persistent gamma oscillations in superficial layers of rat auditory neocortex: experiment and model.
Persistent in vitro gamma oscillations, induced by bath application of carbachol and kainate (amongst other drugs), were discovered by Eberhard Buhl and collaborators in 1998. The oscillations are robust, in that they can continue for hours; but the oscillations are also intricate in their mechanisms: they depend upon phasic synaptic excitation and inhibition, upon electrical coupling between interneurones and between pyramidal neurones, and--at least in neocortex--they depend upon complex intrinsic properties of some of the neurones.
Department of Physiology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, 450 Clarkson Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA. roger.traub@downstate.edu
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Traub
Andrea
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Bibbig
Fiona E N
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LeBeau
Mark O
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Cunningham
Miles A
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Whittington
D000200:Action Potentials / Q000502:physiology; D000818:Animals; D001303:Auditory Cortex / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D001369:Axons / Q000187:drug effects; D004569:Electroencephalography; D018690:Excitatory Amino Acid Agonists / Q000494:pharmacology; D019706:Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D007608:Kainic Acid / Q000494:pharmacology; D008959:Models, Neurological; D017966:Pyramidal Cells / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D051381:Rats; D013569:Synapses / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology
D018690:Excitatory Amino Acid Agonists; D007608:Kainic Acid