An in vitro mouse slice preparation from control and MPTP-treated mice in which functional reciprocal GP-STN connectivity is maintained, does not produce oscillatory bursting or synchronous activity neuronal activity. Pharmacological interventions that produce bursting activity do so without concomitant neuronal synchrony, or a requirement for glutamate or GABA transmission. Pre-treatment with MPTP did not alter this behaviour. Thus, we have no evidence that the functionally connected, but isolated, GP — STN network can act as a pacemaker for synchronous correlated activity in the basal ganglia and must conclude that other inputs such as those from cortex and/or striatum are required.
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Stanford, I. M., Loucif, K. C., Wilson, C. L., Cash, D., & Lacey, M. G. (2006). Limitations of the Isolated GP-STN Network. In The Basal Ganglia VIII (pp. 65–73). Kluwer Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-28066-9_6
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