TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY | Altered GABAA Receptor Subunit Composition in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

Encyclopedia of Basic Epilepsy Research

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1351-1356

  Sperk, G ^a   Wieselthaler Hoelzl, A ^a   Drexel, M ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Animal models of epilepsy; Channelopathies; Chloride channel; Chloride transporter; Drug resistance; GABAA receptor; GABAB receptor; Hippocampus; Kainic acid; Phasic inhibition; Temporal lobe epilepsy; Tonic inhibition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884477860     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012373961-2.00304-0     Document Type: Chapter

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