Low-voltage-activated calcium channel subunit expression in a genetic model of absence epilepsy in the rat

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 159-165

  Talley, Edmund M ^a   Solórzano, Guillermo ^a   Depaulis, Antoine ^b   Perez Reyes, Edward ^c   Bayliss, Douglas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Absence epilepsy; Calcium channel; In situ hybridization; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL;

ABSENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CURRENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; THALAMUS;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CALCIUM CHANNELS, T-TYPE; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0342905034     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(99)00307-1     Document Type: Article

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