Astrocyte uncoupling as a cause of human temporal lobe epilepsy

Brain

Volumn 138, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1208-1222

  Bedner, Peter ^a   Dupper, Alexander ^a   Hüttmann, Kerstin ^a   Müller, Julia ^a   Herde, Michel K ^a   Dublin, Pavel ^a,d   Deshpande, Tushar ^a   Schramm, Johannes ^a   Häussler, Ute ^b   Haas, Carola A ^b   Henneberger, Christian ^a,c   Theis, Martin ^a   Steinhäuser, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gap junction coupling; Gap junction protein alpha 1; Hippocampal sclerosis; Inflammation; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ETIRACETAM; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GAP JUNCTION; GLIA CELL; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MESIAL TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; ANIMAL; MALE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SCLEROSIS; SEIZURE;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; GAP JUNCTIONS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; SCLEROSIS; SEIZURES;

EID: 84925132168     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awv067     Document Type: Article

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