Anticonvulsant effects of the BK-channel antagonist paxilline

Epilepsia

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 711-720

  Sheehan, Jesse J ^a   Benedetti, Brett L ^a   Barth, Alison L ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abnormal excitability; Anticonvulsant; BK; Channelopathy; MaxiK; Sensitization

Indexed keywords

PAXILLINE; PENTETRAZOLE; PICROTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL COUNT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; INDOLES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEOCORTEX; PENTYLENETETRAZOLE; PICROTOXIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEIZURES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 63849262628     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01888.x     Document Type: Article

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