Axonal gap junctions between principal neurons: A novel source of network oscillations, and perhaps epileptogenesis

Reviews in the Neurosciences

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-30

  Traub, Roger D ^a   Draguhn, Andreas ^a   Whittington, Miles A ^a   Baldeweg, Torsten ^a   Bibbig, Andrea ^a   Buhl, Eberhard H ^a   Schmitz, Dietmar ^a  

^a SUNY Downstate Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical dysplasia; D spike; Electrical coupling; Fast prepotential; Hippocampus; Ripple; Seizure; Spikelet

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBACHOL; CARBENOXOLONE; CONNEXIN 36; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLYCYRRHIZA EXTRACT; QUININE;

BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; COMPUTER MODEL; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG PENETRATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; GAP JUNCTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATORY POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; REVIEW; SIMULATION; THEORY; ULCER;

EID: 0036379245     PISSN: 03341763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/REVNEURO.2002.13.1.1     Document Type: Review

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