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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS
Volume 37, Issue 3, Pages 347-360Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10867-011-9216-x
Keywords
Potassium concentration; Burst; Epileptiform; Oscillations; Spatio-temporal; Network dynamics; Seizure
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- NIH-NINDS [1R01NS060870, 1R01NS059740]
- U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) [N00014-07-1-0741]
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Increase of the extracellular K (+) concentration mediates seizure-like synchronized activities in vitro and was proposed to be one of the main factors underlying epileptogenesis in some types of seizures in vivo. While underlying biophysical mechanisms clearly involve cell depolarization and overall increase in excitability, it remains unknown what qualitative changes of the spatio-temporal network dynamics occur after extracellular K (+) increase. In this study, we used multi-electrode recordings from mouse hippocampal slices to explore changes of the network activity during progressive increase of the extracellular K (+) concentration. Our analysis revealed complex spatio-temporal evolution of epileptiform activity and demonstrated a sequence of state transitions from relatively simple network bursts into complex bursting, with multiple synchronized events within each burst. We describe these transitions as qualitative changes of the state attractors, constructed from experimental data, mediated by elevation of extracellular K (+) concentration.
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