Melatonin reduces low-Mg2+ epileptiform activity in human temporal slices

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 321-325

  Fauteck, J D ^a   Bockmann, J ^a   Bockers T M ^a   Wittkowski, W ^a   Kohling R ^a   Lucke A ^a   Straub, H ^a   Speckmann, E J ^a   Tuxhorn, I ^b   Wolf, P ^b   Pannek, H ^c   Oppel, F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b EPILEPSY CENTER BETHEL   (Germany)

^c Neurochirurgische Klinik   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Epileptiform field potentials; Human; Low Mg2+; Melatonin

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM ION; MELATONIN; MELATONIN RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NEOCORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE SUSCEPTIBILITY; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

AUTORADIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MAGNESIUM; MELATONIN; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0029591544     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00230052     Document Type: Article

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