The circuitry of atypical absence seizures in GABABR1a transgenic mice

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 124-130

  Wang, Xiaomei ^a,b   Stewart, Lee ^a   Cortez, Miguel A ^a,b   Wu, Ying ^a,b   Velazquez, Jose Luis Perez ^a,b   Liu, Chun Che ^a,b   Shen, Liqing ^a,b   Snead III, O Carter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

EEG; Epilepsy; GABA receptors; Hippocampus; Thalamus; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

3 AMINOPROPYL(DIETHOXYMETHYL)PHOSPHINIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR SUBUNIT R1A; BACLOFEN; IBOTENIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABSENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE WAVE; THALAMUS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; GABA AGONISTS; GABA ANTAGONISTS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IBOTENIC ACID; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROINJECTIONS; NEURONS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, GABA-B; THALAMUS;

ANIMALIA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 70349253899     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2009.07.017     Document Type: Article

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