Behavioural correlates of an altered balance between synaptic and extrasynaptic GABAAergic inhibition in a mouse model

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2168-2178

  Sinkkonen, Saku T ^a,b   Vekovischeva, Olga Y ^a,b   Möykkynen, Tommi ^a,b   Ogris, Waltraud ^c   Sieghart, Werner ^c   Wisden, William ^d   Korpi, Esa R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Phasic inhibition; Tiagabine; Tonic inhibition

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A ALPHA6 RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; PICROTOXIN; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; TIAGABINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CELL ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOAFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; MEMBRANE CURRENT; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NEUROPHARMACOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEIZURE SUSCEPTIBILITY; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURAL INHIBITION; NIPECOTIC ACIDS; PROTEIN BINDING; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SEIZURES; STARTLE REACTION; SYNAPSES;

EID: 4944235374     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2004.03684.x     Document Type: Article

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