Properties of a delayed rectifier potassium current in dentate granule cells isolated from the hippocampus of patients with chronic temporal lobe epilepsy

Epilepsia

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 892-901

  Beck, H ^a   Blumcke I ^a   Kral, T ^a   Clusmann, H ^a   Schramm, J ^a   Wiestler, O D ^a   Heinemann, U ^b   Elger, C E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acutely isolated granule cell; Ammon's horn sclerosis; Hippocampus; Human; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM ION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DENTATE NUCLEUS; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYPERPOLARIZATION; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLOW INWARD CURRENT; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

EID: 0029789446     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1996.tb00043.x     Document Type: Article

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