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- FUNCTIONAL SIGNIFICANCE OF CELL SIZE IN SPINAL MOTONEURONS. (1965) (2224)
- Excitability and inhibitability of motoneurons of different sizes. (1965) (1084)
- Mechanisms of spreading depression and hypoxic spreading depression-like depolarization. (2001) (1039)
- Extracellular potassium in the mammalian central nervous system. (1979) (459)
- Ion Regulation in the Brain: Implications for Pathophysiology (2002) (333)
- Simulated seizures and spreading depression in a neuron model incorporating interstitial space and ion concentrations. (2000) (288)
- Use of intrinsic optical signals to monitor physiological changes in brain tissue slices. (1999) (271)
- Neuron-glia interactions. (1979) (247)
- Electrophysiology of neuroglia. (1975) (220)
- Nervenkitt: Notes on the history of the concept of neuroglia (1988) (218)
- Integration in the nervous system (1981) (211)
- The projection of jaw elevator muscle spindle afferents to fifth nerve motoneurones in the cat. (1978) (195)
- Responses of electrical potential, potassium levels, and oxidative metabolic activity of the cerebral neocortex of cats (1975) (195)
- Mechanism of spreading depression: a review of recent findings and a hypothesis. (1992) (165)
- Extracellular potassium activity, intracellular and extracellular potential responses in the spinal cord. (1975) (162)
- Conditions for the triggering of spreading depression studied with computer simulations. (2002) (161)
- Na(+) and K(+) concentrations, extra- and intracellular voltages, and the effect of TTX in hypoxic rat hippocampal slices. (2000) (151)
- The effects of temperature on synaptic transmission in hippocampal tissue slices (1985) (145)
- Acidification of interstitial fluid in hippocampal formation caused by seizures and by spreading depression (1984) (129)
- Electrogenesis of sustained potentials. (1973) (123)
- Potassium and calcium concentrations in interstitial fluid of hippocampal formation during paroxysmal responses. (1985) (118)
- Computer simulations of neuron-glia interactions mediated by ion flux (2008) (117)
- Differential sensitivity to intracellular pH among high- and low-threshold Ca2+ currents in isolated rat CA1 neurons. (1997) (113)
- Analysis of potential shifts associated with recurrent spreading depression and prolonged unstable spreading depression induced by microdialysis of elevated K+ in hippocampus of anesthetized rats (1993) (112)
- Chlorpromazine protects brain tissue in hypoxia by delaying spreading depression-mediated calcium influx (1986) (111)
- Failure to anesthetize human subjects by intravenous administration of magnesium sulfate. (1966) (111)
- Spreading depression, sustained potential shifts, and metabolic activity of cerebral cortex of cats. (1973) (108)
- The clearing of excess potassium from extracellular space in spinal cord and cerebral cortex (1978) (108)
- Ions in the Brain: Normal Function, Seizures, and Stroke (2004) (107)
- Calcium dependance of synaptic transmission in the hippocampal slice (1981) (103)
- Membrane currents in CA1 pyramidal cells during spreading depression (SD) and SD-like hypoxic depolarization (1993) (100)
- Spreading depression of Leão: 50 years since a seminal discovery. (1994) (94)
- The effects of moderate changes of extracellular K+ and Ca2+ on synaptic and neural function in the CA1 region of the hippocampal slice (1986) (92)
- Hyperexcitability following moderate hypoxia in hippocampal tissue slices (1985) (89)
- Accommodation in motoneurones of the rat and the cat (1961) (87)
- Mitochondrial and intrinsic optical signals imaged during hypoxia and spreading depression in rat hippocampal slices. (2000) (87)
- Sensory Coding in the Mammalian Nervous System (1975) (86)
- Seizure-like afterdischarges simulated in a model neuron (2007) (85)
- Propagation of spreading depression among dendrites and somata of the same cell population (1993) (84)
- Heptanol but not fluoroacetate prevents the propagation of spreading depression in rat hippocampal slices. (1997) (84)
- The mechanism of the blockade of synaptic transmission in the mammalian spinal cord by diethyl ether and by thiopental. (1963) (84)
- NMDA antagonists: Lack of protective effect against hypoxic damage in CA1 region of hippocampal slices (1988) (82)
- Inhibition of major cationic inward currents prevents spreading depression-like hypoxic depolarization in rat hippocampal tissue slices (1998) (81)
- Na(+) dependence and the role of glutamate receptors and Na(+) channels in ion fluxes during hypoxia of rat hippocampal slices. (2000) (80)
- Role of calcium channels in spreading depression in rat hippocampal slices (1993) (75)
- Stimulus-evoked and seizure-related responses of extracellular calcium activity in spinal cord compared to those in cerebral cortex. (1980) (74)
- Divalent cations and electrical properties of cortical cells. (1969) (72)
- The Missing Error Signal—Regulation Beyond Negative Feedback (1992) (71)
- Responses of motoneurons of different sizes to graded stimulation of supraspinal centers of the brain. (1965) (70)
- The effect of graded hypoxia on the hippocampal slice: an in vitro model of the ischemic penumbra. (1987) (69)
- Potassium, neuroglia, and oxidative metabolism in central gray matter. (1976) (68)
- The uptake of methyl mercury (203Hg) in different tissues related to its neurotoxic effects. (1973) (67)
- Intrinsic optical signals in rat hippocampal slices during hypoxia-induced spreading depression-like depolarization. (1999) (67)
- Two different mechanisms underlie reversible, intrinsic optical signals in rat hippocampal slices. (2002) (66)
- Oxidative metabolism, extracellular potassium and sustained potential shifts in cat spinal cord in situ (1979) (66)
- Ion channel involvement in hypoxia-induced spreading depression in hippocampal slices (1991) (65)
- Potassium-induced enhancement of persistent inward current in hippocampal neurons in isolation and in tissue slices (2000) (64)
- Volume changes induced by osmotic stress in freshly isolated rat hippocampal neurons (1998) (64)
- Potassium, sustained focal potential shifts, and dorsal root potentials of the mammalian spinal cord. (1974) (62)
- Evoked sustained focal potentials and membrane potential of neurons and of unresponsive cells of the spinal cord. (1970) (60)
- Current source density of sustained potential shifts associated with electrographic seizures and with spreading depression in rat hippocampus (1992) (60)
- Functions of primary afferents and responses of extracellular K+ during spinal epileptiform seizures. (1976) (58)
- Suppression of presynaptic calcium currents by hypoxia in hippocampal tissue slices (1992) (56)
- Distribution and tissue uptake of magnesium related to its pharmacological effects. (1968) (56)
- Effects of anesthetics on spinal cord of mammals. (1967) (56)
- Paresthesias and EEG potentials evoked by stimulation of the dorsal funiculi in man. (1972) (55)
- Effects of ether and thiopental on spinal presynaptic terminals. (1963) (52)
- Pathophysiology of pH and Ca2+ in bloodstream and brain. (1987) (50)
- Simultaneous Monitoring of Tissue Po2 and NADH Fluorescence During Synaptic Stimulation and Spreading Depression Reveals a Transient Dissociation between Oxygen Utilization and Mitochondrial Redox State in Rat Hippocampal Slices (2011) (49)
- Prolonged exposure to high potassium concentration results in irreversible loss of synaptic transmission in hippocampal tissue slices (1988) (48)
- Effects of prolonged elevation of potassium on hippocampus of anesthetized rats (1993) (47)
- Differences in O2 availability resolve the apparent discrepancies in metabolic intrinsic optical signals in vivo and in vitro (2007) (46)
- Aristides Leão's discovery of cortical spreading depression. (2005) (46)
- Spinal cord sensation: A.G. Brown and M. Réthelyi (Eds.) (Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, 1981, 341 p., £15.00) (1982) (44)
- Microiontophoretic studies of the effects of L-proline on neurons in the mammalian central nervous system (1975) (44)
- Cellular physiology of hypoxia of the mammalian central nervous system. (1993) (43)
- Electrophysiology of methyl mercury poisoning. (1973) (42)
- Channel shutdown: a response of hippocampal neurons to adverse environments (1993) (37)
- Two mechanisms that raise free intracellular calcium in rat hippocampal neurons during hypoosmotic and low NaCl treatment. (2000) (37)
- Electrophysiological study of corticocaudate projections in cats. (1976) (35)
- The Role of Spreading Depression-Like Hypoxic Depolarization in Irreversible Neuron Damage, and its Prevention (1988) (35)
- Hypoxic failure of synaptic transmission in the isolated spinal cord and the effects of divalent cations (1990) (35)
- Mechanisms of Cerebral Hypoxia and Stroke (2012) (34)
- Enhancement of whole cell synaptic currents by low osmolarity and by low [NaCl] in rat hippocampal slices. (1997) (33)
- Extracellular spike triggered averaging for plotting synaptic projections (1978) (32)
- Calcium sensitive non-selective cation current promotes seizure-like discharges and spreading depression in a model neuron (2009) (32)
- Motor and electrical signs of epileptiform activity induced by penicillin in the spinal cords of decapitate cats. (1976) (30)
- Interactions of nigrostriate synaptic transmission, iontophoretic O-methylated phenethylamines, dopamine, apomorphine and acetylcholine (1976) (28)
- Changes in extracellular calcium and magnesium and synaptic transmission in isolated mouse spinal cord (1989) (28)
- Correlation Between Function and Structure in “Epileptic” Human Hippocampal Tissue Maintained In Vitro (1993) (27)
- Lateral entorhinal cortical kindling can be established without potentiation of the entorhinal-granule cell synapse (1984) (26)
- Optical mapping of translucence changes in rat hippocampal slices during hypoxia (1995) (26)
- Low external NaCl concentration and low osmolarity enhance voltage-gated Ca currents but depress K currents in freshly isolated rat hippocampal neurons (1999) (26)
- Effects of micro-iontophoretic administration of divalent metal ions on neurons of the central nervous system of cats. (1971) (26)
- Reversible effects of hypoxia on neurons in mouse dorsal root ganglia in vitro (1990) (25)
- Phenytoin, Electric, Ionic, and Metabolic Responses in Cortex and Spinal Cord (1977) (24)
- The effect of graded hypertonia on interstitial volume, tissue resistance and synaptic transmission in rat hippocampal tissue slices (1995) (23)
- Neurophysiology: The Essentials (1983) (23)
- Covariation of monosynaptic reflexes in spinal and decerebrate cats. (1966) (22)
- Reflex effects and postsynaptic membrane potential changes during epileptiform activity induced by penicillin in decapitate spinal cords. (1976) (22)
- Optical and pharmacological stimulation of visual cortical neurones. (1973) (22)
- Effects of hypertonia on voltage-gated ion currents in freshly isolated hippocampal neurons, and on synaptic currents in neurons in hippocampal slices (1997) (21)
- Influence of potassium and neuroglia in the generation of seizures and their treatment. (1980) (21)
- Uses and Abuses of in vitro Systems in the Study of the Pathophysiology of the Central Nervous System (1987) (21)
- Anaesthetic action of magnesium ions (1968) (20)
- Extracellular calcium and action potentials of soma and dendrites of hippocampal pyramidal cells (1981) (20)
- Neurological disturbances, nigrostriate synapses, and iontophoretic dopamine and apomorphine after haloperidol (1977) (19)
- The sources of extracellular potassium accumulation in the CA1 region of hippocampal slices (1986) (18)
- The effect of changing extracellular potassium concentration on synaptic transmission in isolated spinal cords (1988) (18)
- Sustained evoked potential changes of the spinal cord. (1969) (18)
- Depression of sustained evoked potentials and glial depolarization in the spinal cord by barbiturates and by diphenylhydantoin. (1973) (18)
- SELECTIVE DEPRESSION OF ALPHA MOTONEURONS OF SMALL SIZE BY ETHER. (1965) (18)
- LSD's effect on neuron populations in visual cortex gauged by transient responses of extracellular potassium evoked by optical stimuli (1979) (18)
- Receptive fields of neurons in areas 17 and 18 of tree shrews (Tupaia Glis) (1979) (18)
- Functions of Glial Cells in the Cerebral Cortex (1987) (16)
- Extracellular Potassium and Calcium Activities in the Mammalian Spinal Cord, and the Effect of Changing Ion Levels on Mammalian Neural Tissues (1981) (15)
- Sensory coding. (1967) (15)
- Pathophysiology of the spinal cord studied in vitro (1989) (14)
- Overshoot of oxygen pressure in post-hypoxic brain tissue: a re-evaluation (1985) (14)
- Is spreading depression bad for you? Focus on "repetitive normoxic spreading depression-like events result in cell damage in juvenile hippocampal slice cultures". (2006) (13)
- Basic Mechanisms in Cerebral Hypoxia and Stroke: Background, review and conclusions (1988) (12)
- Direct and relayed projection of periodontal receptor afferents to the cerebellum in the ferret (1987) (12)
- Glutamine can enhance synaptic transmission in hippocampal slices (1985) (12)
- Monosynaptic reflex depression in cats with organophosphorus neuropathy: effects of tri-o-cresyl phosphate. (1982) (11)
- The effects of LSD and some analogues on the responses of single cortical neurons of the cat to optical stimulation (1980) (11)
- Spontaneous activity induced in isolated mouse spinal cord by high extracellular calcium and by low extracellular magnesium (1989) (11)
- Electrical recording with micro- and macroelectrodes from the cerebellum of man. (1970) (11)
- Muscle Spindles and Tooth Mechano-Receptors in the Control of Mastication (1978) (9)
- The effects of convulsant doses of penicillin on primary afferents, dorsal root ganglion cells, and on ‘presynaptic’ inhibition in the spinal cord (1980) (9)
- Neuroglia and spinal fluids. (1981) (9)
- Prolonged Unstable Depression: A Modified Manifestation of Spreading Depression in Rat Hippocampus (1993) (9)
- PHYSIOLOGY OF GLIAL CELLS (1981) (7)
- Effects of strongly anisosmotic and NaCl deficient solutions on muscimol- and glutamate evoked whole-cell currents in freshly dissociated hippocampal neurons (1995) (7)
- HYPOXIA AND SYNAPTIC FUNCTION (1984) (7)
- Spreading Depression and Neuron Damage: a Brief Review (1992) (6)
- The transmission of reflexes in the spinal cord of cats during direct irradiation with microwaves. (1976) (6)
- Membrane resistance, monosynaptic EPSPs, and the epileptogenic action of penicillin in spinal motoneurons (1977) (6)
- Focal synaptic potentials due to discrete mossy-fibre arrival volleys in the cerebellar cortex (1987) (5)
- The effect of compound 48/80 on mammalian skeletal muscle. (1955) (4)
- REDOX PROPERTIES OF CYTOCHROME OXIDASE AND VASCULAR REACTIVITY OF ASTROCYTOMAS AND NEUROBLASTOMAS IN VIVO (1979) (4)
- Teaching Physiology in Developing Countries: Report of a Meeting (1990) (4)
- Spinal dorsal horn neurons in elevated extracellular calcium: cell properties and spontaneous discharges (1990) (4)
- Enhancement of persistent sodium current by internal fluorescence in isolated hippocampal neurons (2000) (4)
- Influence of striate lesions on visually evoked activity in tree shrew temporal cortex (1979) (4)
- Improved voiding in response to electrical stimulation of the spinal cord of paraplegic dogs. (1976) (4)
- Handbook of Physiology. Section I: The nervous system. Vol. II: Motor control. Parts I and II (1983) (4)
- What muscle spindles and Golgi tendon organs could and could not signal to the brain (1978) (4)
- Does Leão’s Spreading Depression Cause Irreversible Brain Damage? (1988) (4)
- The effects of stimulating the dorsal columns of man. (1972) (4)
- Glial and Neuronal Generators of Sustained Potential Shifts Associated with Electrographic Seizures (1993) (4)
- Report of the worldwide survey on teaching physiology. (1999) (3)
- Cerebral hypoxia and stroke: Reversible and irreversible effects and their prevention (1988) (3)
- Synaptic plasticity. Molecular, cellular and functional aspects (1995) (3)
- Hypoxia and oxygen toxicity in brain and heart (1998) (3)
- Signalling in the Nervous System (1972) (2)
- Comparison of ultracentrifugation and chromatography for the separation and quantitation of cholesterol carrixrs in model and human biles (1993) (2)
- Ion-selective microelectrodes and excitable tissue. (1987) (2)
- Variables of the Sensory Code (1972) (2)
- Glomerular potentials in the cerebellar cortex of the ferret (1986) (2)
- Effect of Hypocalcemia on Neuromuscular Function in Cats (1985) (2)
- Reversible Synaptic Blockade Caused by Hypoxia of Moderate Degree in Hippocampal Tissues Slices (1988) (2)
- NON-SYNAPTIC MECHANISMS | Non-Synaptic Mechanisms in Seizures: The Role of Ion Fluxes and Intrinsic Membrane Properties (2009) (1)
- Effects of CO2 and Interstitial pH Changes on Synaptic Transmission in CA1 Region of Rat Hippocampus in vitro1 (1987) (1)
- The neuroglia mystery. (1993) (1)
- Strongly anisosmotic solutions suppress GABA-A currents in freshly dissociated hippocampal neurons. (1994) (1)
- Problems of teaching physiology in developing countries. (1986) (1)
- Proceedings: Differential projection of spindle afferents from rostral and caudal parts of the mesencephalic nucleus of the fifth nerve. (1976) (1)
- Neurophysiology studied in man : proceedings of a symposium held in Paris at the Faculté des sciences, 20-22 July 1971 (1972) (1)
- Electrophysiology: a practical approach (1994) (0)
- Dynamic patterns of brain cell assemblies. IV. Mixed systems. Steady states and their shifts. Spinal cord studies. (1974) (0)
- Optical Signals in Rat Hippocampal Slices Two Different Mechanisms Underlie Reversible , Intrinsic (2002) (0)
- Effects ofextracellular pH onvoltage-gated Nae,K+andCa2+ currents inisolated ratCAIneurons (2011) (0)
- Velocity of supraspinal input and conduction velocity of axons of spinal motoneurons (1977) (0)
- Phenobarbital effects on extracellular potassium activity and oxidative metabolism in cat cerebral cortex (1976) (0)
- The Central Code of Hearing (1972) (0)
- The passing of a hero of neuroscience: An appreciation of Alexander I. Roitbak (1992) (0)
- Approaches to Brain Function (1972) (0)
- The External Chemical Senses (1972) (0)
- Direct Contact with the World (1972) (0)
- Sensory Synaptic Cascades (1972) (0)
- Junctions, or Diffusion and Is Consistent with Electrical Field Transmission Propagation of Epileptiform Activity Can Be Independent of Synaptic Transmission, Gap (2015) (0)
- The Central Code of the Chemical Senses (1972) (0)
- Na 1 Dependence and the Role of Glutamate Receptors and Na 1 Channels in Ion Fluxes During Hypoxia of Rat Hippocampal Slices (2000) (0)
- Osmolarity and by Low (NaCl) in Rat Hippocampal Slices Enhancement of Whole Cell Synaptic Currents by Low (2013) (0)
- Central Coding in the Somatic Senses (1972) (0)
- Reticular formation, brain waves, and coma (1981) (0)
- The Inner Ear (1972) (0)
- DepolarizationHypoxia-Induced Spreading Depression-Like Intrinsic Optical Signals in Rat Hippocampal Slices (2015) (0)
- Studied With Computer Simulations Conditions for the Triggering of Spreading Depression (2015) (0)
- Mitochondrial Depolarization and Intrinsic Optical Signal During Hypoxia in Rat Hippocampus (2000) (0)
- Concentrations Ion Neuron Model Incorporating Interstitial Space and Simulated Seizures and Spreading Depression in a (2015) (0)
- Arterial Blood Ca 2+ Levels, Cardiac and Respiratory Function (1985) (0)
- Epilepsy. A window to brain mechanisms: J.S. Lockard and A.A. Ward, Jr. (Eds.) (Raven, New York, 1980, 296 p., U.S. $29.50) (1982) (0)
- THE INNER SENSES (2018) (0)
- CA1 Neurons Currents in Isolated Rat 2+ and Low-Threshold Ca Differential Sensitivity to Intracellular pH Among High- (2015) (0)
- Letter from George G. Somjen to Joshua Lederberg (1981) (0)
- The Central Code of Sight (1972) (0)
- Monitoring Ca2+, pH, and PCO2 in Circulating Arterial Blood by Means of Ion-Selective Electrodes in a Flow Cell (1985) (0)
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