Expressional analysis of the astrocytic Kir4.1 channel in a pilocarpine-induced temporal lobe epilepsy model

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUNE, 2013, Pages

  Nagao, Yuki ^a   Harada, Yuya ^a   Mukai, Takahiro ^a   Shimizu, Saki ^a   Okuda, Aoi ^a   Fujimoto, Megumi ^a   Ono, Asuka ^a   Sakagami, Yoshihisa ^a   Ohno, Yukihiro ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Astrocytes; Kir4.1 channel; Pilocarpine; Spatial potassium buffering; Status epilepticus; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL SUBUNIT KIR2.1; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL SUBUNIT KIR4.1; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL SUBUNIT KIR5.1; PILOCARPINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; ASTROCYTOSIS; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORTICAL AMYGDALA; EPILEPTIC STATE; EPILEPTOGENESIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEDIAL AMYGDALA; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SENSORY CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 84879189589     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2013.00104     Document Type: Article

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