Functional plasticity in the hippocampal slices in vitro [Elektronische Ressource] / von Sreedharan Sajikumar

Functional plasticity in the hippocampal slices in vitro Dissertation zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades doctor rerum naturalium (Dr.rer.nat.) genehmight durch die Fakultät für Naturwissenschaften der Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg von M.Sc. Sreedharan Sajikumar geb. am 10. 05. 1976 in Chingoli, Keralam, India. Gutachter: Prof. Dr. Julietta U. Frey Prof. Dr. Denise Manahan-Vaughan Prof. Dr. Volker Höllt Eingereicht am: 3.12.2004 Verteidigung am: 04.05.2005 Dedicated to my M.Sc mentor Prof. Dr. V. K. Sasidharan 2ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I feel extremely fortunate to have the privilege of working under the inspiring supervision of Prof. Dr. Julietta Uta Frey. I sincerely thank her for the constant support, encouragement and constructive criticisms. Her unstinted guidance and monitoring of this work has enabled me to take the right direction. I am highly grateful to Sabine Opitz for her excellent technical assistance during the initial period of this work. I am highly indebted to Manuela Homeyer for her timely help, and co-operation extended to me during the entire period of this work. I wish to acknowledge the help and valuable suggestions given to me by Dr. Maxim Sokolov, Dr. Volker Korz, Dr. Sabine Frey, Dr. Thomas Behnisch, Dr. Tariq Ahmed and Dr. Anna Karpova.