NON-SYNAPTIC MECHANISMS | Changes in the Extracellular Space as a Modulator of Excitability and Epileptogenicity

Encyclopedia of Basic Epilepsy Research

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 946-953

  Hochman, D W ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquaporin 4; Electric field; Ephaptic; Extracellular space; Ion cotransport; KCC2; NKCC1; Nonsynaptic; Osmolarity; Water channels

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861407786     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012373961-2.00097-7     Document Type: Chapter

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