This is a list of some of the biological papers that I have read:

• Avoli, M. et al. 'Synchronous GABA-Mediated Potentials and Epileptiform Discharges in the Rat Limbic System In Vitro', J Neurosci, 16(12), 3912-3924, 1996.
• Avoli, M. 'Do interictal discharges promote or control seizures? Experimental evidence from an in vitro model of epileptiform discharge', Epilepsia, 42, 2-4, 2001.
• Avoli, M., Biagini, G. & De Curtis, M. 'Do interictal spikes sustain seizures and epileptogenesis?', Epilepsy Currents, 6, 203-207, 2006.
• Cavalheiro, E.A., Leite, J.P., Bortolotto, Z.A., Turski, W.A., Ikonomidou, C. & Turski, L. 'Long-term effects of pilocarpine in rats: Structural damage of the brain triggers kindling and spontaneous recurrent seizures', Epilepsia, 32, 778-782, 1991.
• Curia, G., Longo, D., Biagini, G., Jones, R.S.G. & Avoli, M.: 'The pilocarpine model of temporal lobe epilepsy', J Neuro Methods, 172, 143-157, 2008.
• Fonnum, F.: 'Glutamate: A Neurotransmitter in Mammalian Brain', J Neurochem, 42, No. 1, 1984.
• Gutiérrez, R., Armand, V., Schuchmann, S. & Heinemann, U. 'Epileptiform activity induced by low Mg2+ in cultured rat hippocampal slices', Brain Research, 815, 294-303, 1999.
• Klausberger, T. & Somogyi, P.: 'Neuronal Diversity and Temporal Dynamics: The Unity of Hippocampal Circuit Operations', Science, 321, 53-57, 2008.
• Köhling, R. & Avoli, M.: 'Methodological approaches to exploring epileptic disorders in the human brain in vitro', J Neuro Methods, 155, 1-19, 2006.
• Lodge, D.: 'The history of the pharmacology and cloning of ionotropic glutamate receptors and the development of idiosyncratic nomenclature', Neuropharmacology, 56, 6-21, 2009.
  
• Marchi, N. et al. 'In Vivo and In Vitro Effects of Pilocarpine: Relevance to Ictogenesis', Epilepsia, 48(10), 1934-46, 2007.
• Nagao, T., Alonso, A. & Avoli, M.: 'Epileptiform activity induced by pilocarpine in the rat hippocampal-entorhinal slice preparation', Neuroscience, 72, 399 – 408, 1996.
• Rutecki, P.A. & Yang, Y.: 'Ictal Epileptiform Activity in the CA3 Region of Hippocampal Slices Produced by Pilocarpine', J Neurophysiol, 79, 3019-3029, 1998.