Dentate granule cell GABAA receptors in epileptic hippocampus: Enhanced synaptic efficacy and altered pharmacology

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1607-1616

  Cohen, Akiva S ^a,b,d   Lin, Dean D ^c   Quirk, Gerald L ^c   Coulter, Douglas A ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dentate gyrus; Electrophysiology; Pilocarpine; Zinc; Zolpidem

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; PILOCARPINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; EPILEPSY; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MOSSY FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE SUSCEPTIBILITY; SYNAPSE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ANIMALS; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GABA AGONISTS; GABA ANTAGONISTS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PYRIDINES; RATS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS; ZINC;

EID: 0037680161     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02597.x     Document Type: Article

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