The Cav2.3 voltage-gated calcium channel in epileptogenesis-Shedding new light on an enigmatic channel

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1122-1144

  Weiergräber, Marco ^a   Kamp, Marcel A ^a   Radhakrishnan, Kayalvizhi ^a   Hescheler, Jürgen ^a   Schneider, Toni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antiepileptic drugs; Channelopathies; E R type Ca2+ channel; Epileptogenesis; Pharmacoresistant; Plateau potential

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CALCIUM; CARBACHOL; DICLOFENAMIDE; DIHYDROPYRIDINE; ETHOSUXIMIDE; ETHOXZOLAMIDE; ETIRACETAM; FELBAMATE; GABAPENTIN; LAMOTRIGINE; NIFEDIPINE; NIMODIPINE; NITRENDIPINE; OMEGA AGATOXIN; OMEGA CONOTOXIN; PREGABALIN; SIPATRIGINE; TOPIRAMATE; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL; ZONISAMIDE;

ABSENCE; AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; APOPTOSIS; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHANNEL GATING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG TARGETING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EPILEPTOGENESIS; HUMAN; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SEIZURE SUSCEPTIBILITY;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNELS, R-TYPE; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY; HUMANS;

EID: 33845228316     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2006.07.004     Document Type: Review

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