The pro-convulsant actions of corticotropin-releasing hormone in the hippocampus of infant rats

Neuroscience

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 71-79

  Hollrigel, G S ^a   Chen, K ^a   Baram, T Z ^a,b   Soltesz, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Epilepsy; Excitability; GABA; Glutamate; Seizure

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; BICUCULLINE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID;

AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; EPILEPTOGENESIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MOSSY FIBER; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CONVULSANTS; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; KINETICS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0031916236     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(97)00499-5     Document Type: Article

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