GABAergic compensation in connexin36 knock-out mice evident during low-magnesium seizure-like event activity

Brain Research

Volumn 1360, Issue , 2010, Pages 49-55

  Voss, Logan J ^a   Melin, Sofia ^b   Jacobson, Gregory ^c   Sleigh, James W ^a  

^a WAIKATO HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

connexin36; Cortex; GABA; Gap junction; Interneuron; Seizure

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; CONNEXIN 36; ETOMIDATE; MAGNESIUM; MEFLOQUINE; PICROTOXIN;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GAP JUNCTION; INTERNEURON; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CONNEXINS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ETOMIDATE; FEMALE; GABA ANTAGONISTS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GAP JUNCTIONS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; MAGNESIUM DEFICIENCY; MALE; MEFLOQUINE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PICROTOXIN; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SEIZURES;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 77957963683     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.09.002     Document Type: Article

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