Voltage-gated Ca 2+ channel mediated Ca 2+ influx in epileptogenesis

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 740, Issue , 2012, Pages 1219-1247

  Siwek, Magdalena ^a   Henseler, Christina ^a   Broich, Karl ^a   Papazoglou, Anna ^a   Weiergräber, Marco ^a  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR DRUGS AND MEDICAL DEVICES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Hippocampus; Plateau potentials; Rebound burst firing; Voltage gated Ca 2+ channels

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM CHANNEL CAV2.3; CALCIUM CHANNEL CAV3.2; CALCIUM CHANNEL E TYPE; CALCIUM CHANNEL R TYPE; PROTEIN KINASE C; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL;

ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM CHANNELOPATHY; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL FUNCTION; COMPLEX FORMATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG MECHANISM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; HUMAN; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CALCIUM CHANNELS, R-TYPE; CALCIUM CHANNELS, T-TYPE; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; EPILEPSY; HUMANS;

EID: 84859909883     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2888-2_55     Document Type: Article

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