A portion of inhibitory neurons in human temporal lobe epilepsy are functionally upregulated: An endogenous mechanism for seizure termination

CNS Neuroscience and Therapeutics

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 204-214

  Wen, Bo ^a,b   Qian, Hao ^a,b   Feng, Jing ^a   Ge, Rong Jing ^a,c   Xu, Xin ^d   Cui, Zhi Qiang ^d   Zhu, Ru Yuan ^d   Pan, Long Sheng ^d   Lin, Zhi Pei ^d   Wang, Jin Hui ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c QINGDAO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Department of Nephrology   (China)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Excitability; GABA; Human brain; Neuron; Synaptic transmission

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERNEURON; NERVE CELL NETWORK; SEIZURE; SPIKE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; UPREGULATION; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOPHYSICS; BRAIN; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG EFFECTS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL;

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BIOTIN; NEUROBIOTIN; VALPROIC ACID;

ANTICONVULSANTS; BIOPHYSICS; BIOTIN; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOWN-REGULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IN VITRO TECHNIQUES; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; SYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; UP-REGULATION; VALPROIC ACID;

EID: 84921556252     PISSN: 17555930     EISSN: 17555949     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cns.12336     Document Type: Article

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