Alteration of NMDA receptor-mediated synaptic interactions in the lateral amygdala associated with seizure activity in a mouse model of chronic temporal lobe epilepsy

Epilepsia

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1754-1762

  Graebenitz, Stéphanie ^a   Lesting, Jörg ^a   Sosulina, Ludmila ^a   Seidenbecher, Thomas ^a   Pape, Hans Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Epilepsy; GABA receptors; Glutamate receptors; Synapses

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; 6 NITRO 7 SULFAMOYLBENZO[F]QUINOXALINE 2,3 DIONE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; PILOCARPINE; TETRODOTOXIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EX VIVO STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE MODEL; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SEIZURE;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; HUMANS; MICE; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PILOCARPINE; RATS; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SEIZURES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 77956326008     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2010.02561.x     Document Type: Article

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