Impaired feedforward inhibition of the thalamocortical projection in epileptic Ca2+ channel mutant mice, tottering

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3056-3065

  Sasaki, Sachie ^a   Huda, Kadrul ^a,c   Inoue, Tsuyoshi ^a   Miyata, Mariko ^a   Imoto, Keiji ^a,b  

^a GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c 05 01 02   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Absence seizure; Ca2+ channel; Feedforward inhibition; Mutant mice; Synaptic transmission; Thalamocortical projection

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL P TYPE; CALCIUM CHANNEL Q TYPE; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN SLICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPILEPSY; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; GROUPS BY AGE; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; ONSET AGE; PATHOGENESIS; PERINATAL PERIOD; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RECORDING; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT;

6-CYANO-7-NITROQUINOXALINE-2,3-DIONE; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CALCIUM CHANNELS, N-TYPE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; HOMEOSTASIS; LIDOCAINE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; OMEGA-AGATOXIN IVA; OMEGA-CONOTOXIN GVIA; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PICROTOXIN; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMIC NUCLEI; VALINE;

EID: 33644995349     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5422-05.2006     Document Type: Article

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