Alterations in GABAA receptor mediated inhibition in adjacent dorsal midline thalamic nuclei in a rat model of chronic limbic epilepsy

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2501-2508

  Rajasekaran, Karthik ^a   Kapur, Jaideep ^a   Bertram, Edward H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMUS; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; BICUCULLINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; GABA ANTAGONISTS; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; LYSINE; MALE; MIDLINE THALAMIC NUCLEI; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 36248944537     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00139.2007     Document Type: Article

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