Chronic hyperglycaemia increases neuronal sensitivity to high potassium in hippocampal slices from streptozotocin-treated diabetic rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 279, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 105-108

  Candy, Suzanne M ^a   Szatkowski, Marek S ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Epilepsy; Excitability; Hippocampus; Hyperglycaemia; Potassium; Streptozotocin

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); POTASSIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; MALE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; STREPTOZOCIN DIABETES;

ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; MALE; POTASSIUM; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0033972879     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00954-4     Document Type: Article

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