Balancing and imbalancing effects of astrocytic receptors in tripartite synapses. Common pathophysiological model of mental disorders and epilepsy

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 315-320

  Mitterauer, Bernhard J ^a  

^a Volitronics Institute for Basic Research   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; NEUROTRANSMITTER; PRESYNAPTIC RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN; DEPRESSION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MANIA; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL PATIENT; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEIZURE; STRESS; SYNAPSE; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT RESISTANT DEPRESSION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ASTROCYTES; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84924065608     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: 15322777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2015.01.025     Document Type: Article

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