L-type calcium channel blockade reduces network activity in human epileptic hypothalamic hamartoma tissue

Epilepsia

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 531-540

  Simeone, Kristina A ^a,b   Sabesan, Shivkumar ^a   Kim, Do Young ^a   Kerrigan, John F ^a   Rho, Jong M ^a   Simeone, Timothy A ^a,b  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Gelasticseizures; High frequencyoscillations; Hypothalamus; Multielectrodearray; Nifedipine

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; NIFEDIPINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; GELASTIC SEIZURE; HAMARTOMA; HIGH FREQUENCY OSCILLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHALAMUS TUMOR; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROMODULATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CALCIUM CHANNELS, L-TYPE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC DISEASES; HYPOTHALAMUS; INFANT; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURONS; NIFEDIPINE; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952574899     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2010.02942.x     Document Type: Article

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