Correlation of T-channel coding gene expression, IT, and the low threshold Ca2+ spike in the thalamus of a rat model of absence epilepsy

Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 384-399

  Broicher, Tilman ^a   Kanyshkova, Tatyana ^a   Meuth, Patrick ^a   Pape, Hans Christian ^a   Budde, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Absence epilepsy; Burst firing; Patch clamp; Real time PCR; T type Ca2+ channel; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL T TYPE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; GENE EXPRESSION; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; LATERAL RETICULAR NUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNELS, T-TYPE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ION CHANNEL GATING; MALE; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; TETRODOTOXIN; THALAMUS;

RATTUS;

EID: 53649100845     PISSN: 10447431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcn.2008.07.012     Document Type: Article

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