GABAA α2 mRNA levels are decreased following induction of spontaneous epileptiform discharges in hippocampal-entorhinal cortical slices

Brain Research

Volumn 721, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 111-119

  Vick, Robert S ^a   Rafiq, Azhar ^a   Coulter, Douglas A ^a   Jakoi, Emma R ^a   DeLorenzo, Robert J ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; GABA receptor; Gene expression; Hippocampal slice; Partial seizure

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; MAGNESIUM ION; MESSENGER RNA; CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II; CALMODULIN-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II; MAGNESIUM; PROTEIN KINASE (CALCIUM,CALMODULIN);

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENZYME INDUCTION; ENZYMOLOGY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; ENZYME INDUCTION; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MAGNESIUM; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0029665545     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(96)00060-1     Document Type: Article

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