Three brief epileptic seizures reduce inhibitory synaptic currents, GABAA currents, and GABAA-receptor subunits

Epilepsia

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1655-1664

  Steven Evans, M ^a   Cady, Craig J ^b   Disney, Kimberly E ^a   Yang, Li ^c   Laguardia, James J ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BRADLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Audiogenic kindling; Epilepsy; GABAA receptors; Gamma2 subunit; IPSC

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EPILEPSY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; KINDLING; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR SENSITIVITY; SEIZURE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELLS, CULTURED; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, REFLEX; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 33749683558     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2006.00634.x     Document Type: Article

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