Blocking seizures with the diuretic bumetanide: Promises and pitfalls

Epilepsia

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 394-396

  Ben Ari, Yehezkel ^a  

^a Turing Center for Living Systems CENTURI Aix Marseille University   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; BUMETANIDE; CHLORIDE CHANNEL; DIAZEPAM; PHENOBARBITAL; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE COTRANSPORTER; SODIUM CHLORIDE COTRANSPORTER; SODIUM ION; TYROSINE;

DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SEIZURE; SODIUM CURRENT;

ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; BUMETANIDE; DIURETICS; HUMANS; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; SEIZURES;

EID: 84856324540     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2011.03378.x     Document Type: Note

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