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The highly stratified organization and well documented electro-physiology of the hippocampus (Green, 1964; Pribram and Isaacson, 1975), as well as the availability of techniques for localized measurements with ion-sensitive microelectrodes (Walker, 1971; Oeme et al., 1976), have encouraged recent studies (Benninger et al., 1980; Krnjević et al., 1980) of transmembrane ionic shifts which may be associated with the generation of consciousness and memory formation, and a marked susceptibility to seizure activation and anoxic damage.
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Morris, M.E. (1981). Measurements of Ion Activity in the CNS: Extracellular K+ and Ca2+ in the Hippocampus. In: Syková, E., Hník, P., Vyklický, L. (eds) Ion-Selective Microelectrodes and Their Use in Excitable Tissues. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9224-2_26
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