Basic mechanisms of partial epilepsies

Current Opinion in Neurology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 155-159

  Heinemann, Uwe ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell death; Developmental abnormalities; Febrile seizures; Mitochondrial damage; Multidrug transporters; Pharmaco resistance; Radical oxygen species

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOPYRIDINE; CATION CHANNEL; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

BRAIN MALFORMATION; DYSPLASIA; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; HYPERPOLARIZATION; HYPERTHERMIA; MITOCHONDRION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SEIZURE;

ANTICONVULSANTS; CELL DEATH; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; DRUG RESISTANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HUMANS; NERVE NET; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS;

EID: 1842505722     PISSN: 13507540     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019052-200404000-00012     Document Type: Review

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