Increased seizure threshold in mice lacking aquaporin-4 water channels

NeuroReport

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 259-262

  Binder, Devin K ^a   Oshio, Kotaro ^a   Ma, Tonghui ^b   Verkman, A S ^b   Manley, Geoffrey T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquaporin 4; Brain edema; Epilepsy; Glial cells; Water transport

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN 4; PENTETRAZOLE; WATER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG ACTIVITY; GLIA; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LATENT PERIOD; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE THRESHOLD; WILD TYPE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AQUAPORIN 4; AQUAPORINS; BRAIN; BRAIN EDEMA; CONVULSANTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURONS; PENTYLENETETRAZOLE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 1542290152     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200402090-00009     Document Type: Article

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