Effects of flunarizine on spontaneous synaptic currents in rat neocortex

Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology

Volumn 370, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 176-182

  Golumbek, P T ^a   Rho, J M ^b   Spain, W J ^a,c   Van Brederode, J F M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Puget Sound VA Health Care System   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternating hemiplegia; Ca 2+ channels; Dimethyl sulfoxide; Epilepsy; Flunarizine; Na+ channels; Neocortex; Synaptic transmission

Indexed keywords

DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; FLUNARIZINE; POTASSIUM; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; TETRODOTOXIN;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BRAIN SLICE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPILEPSY; HEMIPLEGIA; IN VITRO STUDY; MEMBRANE CURRENT; MIGRAINE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; RAT; SODIUM TRANSPORT; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CALCIUM CHANNELS; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; FLUNARIZINE; NEOCORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOLVENTS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 5444222576     PISSN: 00281298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00210-004-0968-8     Document Type: Article

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