Voltage-dependent calcium channel abnormalities in hippocampal CA3 neurons of spontaneously epileptic rats

Epilepsia

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 758-764

  Yan, Hai Dun ^a   Ishihara, Kumatoshi ^b,c   Hanaya, Ryosuke ^b   Kurisu, Kaoru ^b   Serikawa, Tadao ^d   Sasa, Masashi ^a,e  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Nagisa Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ca2+ current; Hippocampal CA3 neuron; Patch clamp; Spontaneously epileptic rats (SERs); Voltage dependent Ca2+ channels (VDCCs)

Indexed keywords

TETRODOTOXIN; TETRYLAMMONIUM; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL;

ABSENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; TONIC SEIZURE; WHOLE CELL; WISTAR RAT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNELS; EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; NEURONS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RATS, WISTAR; TETRAETHYLAMMONIUM; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 34247145041     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2007.00957.x     Document Type: Article

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