Excitability changes in freeze-induced neocortical microgyria

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 32, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 75-82

  Hablitz, John J ^a   Defazio, Tony ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Epileptogenesis; Inhibition; Microgyria; Neocortex

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOPYRIDINE; AMINO ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BICUCULLINE; CALBINDIN; CALRETICULIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; PARVALBUMIN; VIMENTIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FREEZING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MICROGYRIA; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

2-AMINO-5-PHOSPHONOVALERATE; 6-CYANO-7-NITROQUINOXALINE-2,3-DIONE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EPILEPSY; FREEZING; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0032168743     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-1211(98)00041-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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