The potassium channel modulator flupirtine shifts the frequency-response function of hippocampal synapses to favour LTD in mice

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 370, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 186-190

  Azad, Shahnaz Christina ^a,b   Eder, Matthias ^a   Simon, Wanda ^a,c   Hapfelmeier, Gerhard ^a,c   Dodt, Hans Ulrich ^a   Zieglgänsberger, Walter ^a   Rammes, Gerhard ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Analgesic; Flupirtine; Hippocampus; Long term depression; Long term potentiation; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

FLUPIRTINE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMMISSURE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPERPOLARIZATION; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SYNAPSE;

AMINOPYRIDINES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG-TERM DEPRESSION (PHYSIOLOGY); LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; NEURONS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 5644279093     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.08.014     Document Type: Article

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