Focal reduction of neuronal glutamate transporters in human neocortical epilepsy

Epilepsia

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 226-236

  Rakhade, Sanjay N ^a   Loeb, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity; Excitatory amino acid transporters; Glutamate; Human epilepsy

Indexed keywords

EXCITATORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER 3; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER 4; GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL DENSITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOWN REGULATION; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EXCITABILITY; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOLUBILIZATION; STAINING; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEM X-AG; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EPILEPSY; GLUTAMATE PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; GLUTAMATES; HUMANS; NEOCORTEX; NEURONS; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 38649112650     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2007.01310.x     Document Type: Article

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