Maintenance of thalamic epileptiform activity depends on the astrocytic glutamate-glutamine cycle

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2880-2888

  Bryant, Astra S ^a   Li, Bojia ^a   Beenhakker, Mark P ^a   Huguenard, John R ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL ACTIVITY; FEMALE; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THALAMUS;

3-MERCAPTOPROPIONIC ACID; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BICUCULLINE; CONVULSANTS; FEMALE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; THALAMUS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70449381077     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00476.2009     Document Type: Article

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