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Abnormal neuronal excitability in rat hippocampal slices after chronic lesion of medial septal area

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authors

  • Sidorov, B. M.
  • Francesconi, Valter
  • Berton, F.

publication date

  • 1991

journal

  • Zhurnal Vysshei Nervnoi Deyatelnosti Imeni I P Pavlova  Journal

abstract

  • To determine if electrophysiological properties of hippocampal pathways are altered after medial septal area (MSA) destruction, extracellular recordings were made from hippocampal slices of rats 30 days following lesion and compared with those from unoperated controls. The preparation of slices, data accumulation and data analyses were done under the same conditions. The electrophysiological parameters of interest were the population spike (PS) and the field EPSP, produced in the CA1 pyramidal layer by stimulation of the Schaffer collaterals. The principal finding of this study was that neuronal excitability in slices from MSA-lesioned rats was altered. The most striking abnormalities were an epileptiform activity, which consisted of multiple PSs, and multiple seizure-like after discharges with a delayed onset to low stimulation intensities. In the CA1 region of the slices collected from lesioned rats the input-output curve of field EPSP versus PS showed a leftward shift as compared with their counterparts in normal slices. These changes may be related to relative reduction of inhibitory processes in interneuronal circuits of CA1 region.

subject areas

  • Animals
  • Electric Stimulation
  • Epilepsy
  • Hippocampus
  • In Vitro Techniques
  • Limbic System
  • Membrane Potentials
  • Neurons
  • Perfusion
  • Rats
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Identity

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0044-4677

PubMed ID

  • 1647580
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Additional Document Info

start page

  • 131

end page

  • 138

volume

  • 41

issue

  • 1

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