Anticonvulsant actions of gap junctional blockers in an in vitro seizure model

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1893-1902

  Jahromi, Shokrollah S ^a   Wentlandt, Kirsten ^a   Piran, Sanaz ^a   Carlen, Peter L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM CHLORIDE; CARBENOXOLONE; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; OCTANOL; PROPIONIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ACIDOSIS; AFTERDISCHARGE; ALKALINIZATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; GAP JUNCTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; TETANY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0036796629     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.2002.88.4.1893     Document Type: Article

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