Enhanced hypoxia susceptibility in hippocampal slices from a mouse model of Rett syndrome

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1016-1032

  Fischer, Marc ^a,b   Reuter, Julia ^b   Gerich, Florian J ^a,b   Hildebrandt, Belinda ^b   Hägele, Sonja ^b   Katschinski, Dörthe ^b   Müller, Michael ^a,b  

^a Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN 2; POTASSIUM ION;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CELL HYPOXIA; CELL SWELLING; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RETT SYNDROME; SEIZURE SUSCEPTIBILITY; SPREADING CORTICAL DEPRESSION; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL;

4-AMINOPYRIDINE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; ANOXIA; BICUCULLINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EDEMA; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; EXONS; FEMALE; GABA ANTAGONISTS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOXIA-INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1, ALPHA SUBUNIT; MALE; METHYL-CPG-BINDING PROTEIN 2; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; REACTION TIME; RETT SYNDROME; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 61349152364     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.91124.2008     Document Type: Article

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