Extracellular slow negative transient in the dentate gyrus of human epileptic hippocampus in vitro

Neuroscience

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 31-37

  Isokawa, M ^a   Fried, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

aberrant mossy fibers; dentate granule cells; epileptic depolarization; NMDA receptor; perforant path; temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BICUCULLINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0029991960     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0306-4522(95)00544-7     Document Type: Article

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