Increased thalamic inhibition in the absence seizure prone DBA/2J mouse

Epilepsia

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 921-925

  Tan, Heneu O ^a   Reid, Christopher A ^a   Chiu, Cindy ^a   Jones, Mathew V ^b   Petrou, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Absence seizures; C57B 6; DBA 2J; GABAA receptor; Sleep; Thalamocortical

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR;

ABSENCE; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GENETIC RISK; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MOUSE; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NONREM SLEEP; POSTSYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE SUSCEPTIBILITY; SPIKE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS; WAVEFORM;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SLEEP, REM; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMUS;

EID: 43649103502     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01536.x     Document Type: Article

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