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Morphology of cortical neurons in 3D (D. Schubert) |
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Background:
Details about the dendritic and especially the axonal organization of
cortical neurons are crucial for their classification and prediction of
their functional capabilities. Fixed cortical tissue of rats, containing
single or two synaptically connected neurons that were labeled during
electrophysiological recordings, will be used to produce 3D reconstructions
of the neurons, revealing their morphometric details - and its full beauty. |
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Project Postnatal exposure of newborn rats to the antidepressant Fluoxetine (comparable to the situation that a mother is using Fluoxetine against depression during her pregnancy) leads to prominent changes in the neuronal networks of the brain. Aim of this study is to reveal how severe these changes are in the different cortical networks and whether they are permanent or at least partially transient only. For methodological
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Functional
connectivity & signal processing in the cortex (D. Schubert) |
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Background:
The functional background of signal processing in sensory cortical areas
is still unclear. We investigate how single neurons and small defined
populations of neurons in living brain slice preparations participate
in the signal propagation of the primary somatosensory cortex in health and in the disease model we emply in our group (SERT-/- rat line & EHMT1+/- mouse line). For this,
a sophisticated state of the art combination of different electrophysiological
methodologies is used on in vitro brain slice preparations of rats or on neuronal cultures. |
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