Gap junctions and epileptic seizures - two sides of the same coin?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Volman, Vladislav ^a,b   Perc, Matjaž ^c   Bazhenov, Maxim ^a,d  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTRICAL SYNAPSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; SEIZURE; ANIMAL; CELL JUNCTION; EPILEPSY; METABOLISM; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; EPILEPSY; GAP JUNCTIONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 79957852030     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020572     Document Type: Article

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