Cellular and network mechanisms of electrographic seizures

Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 45-57

  Bazhenov, Maxim ^a,b   Timofeev, Igor ^c   Fröhlich, Flavio ^a,d   Sejnowski, Terrence J ^a,d  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CALCIUM ION; POTASSIUM; SODIUM ION;

BRAIN CORTEX; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROGRAPHY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POTASSIUM CELL LEVEL; POTASSIUM TRANSPORT; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SPIKE WAVE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

EID: 57249094328     PISSN: 17406757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ddmod.2008.07.005     Document Type: Review

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