Targeting BK (big potassium) channels in epilepsy

Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1283-1295

  N'Gouemo, Prosper ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticonvulsant; Epileptogenesis; Gain of function; Gene mutation; Loss of function; Seizures

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CALCIUM; CHARYBDOTOXIN; ETHOSUXIMIDE; IBERIOTOXIN; LARGE CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; PAXILLINE; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE C; QUINOLINE;

ABSENCE; AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; CHANNEL GATING; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; GAIN OF FUNCTION MUTATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PH; PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; WITHDRAWAL SEIZURE;

ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM SIGNALING; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; LARGE-CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM-ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 80054679894     PISSN: 14728222     EISSN: 17447631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/14728222.2011.620607     Document Type: Review

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