Mechanism of action of the epileptogenic drug pentylenetetrazol on a cloned neuronal potassium channel

Brain Research

Volumn 722, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 59-70

  Madeja, Michael ^a   Mußhoff, Ulrich ^a   Lorra, Christoph ^b   Pongs, Olaf ^b   Speckmann, Erwin Josef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b Zentrum F Molec Neurobiologie H   (Germany)

Author keywords

epilepsy; oocyte; pentylenetetrazol; potassium channel; seizure; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

PENTETRAZOLE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; XENOPUS;

EID: 0343807504     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(96)00181-3     Document Type: Article

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