Interaction between low voltage-activated currents in reticular thalamic neurons in a rat model of absence epilepsy

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2090-2097

  Meis, Susanne ^a   Biella, Gerardo ^a   Pape, Hans Christian ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

A current; Absence epilepsy; Genetic model; T current; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ABSENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CURRENT; CELL ISOLATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; ION CURRENT; MALE; MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPIKE WAVE; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 0029906857     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.1996.tb00730.x     Document Type: Article

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