Weeding out bad waves: Towards selective cannabinoid circuit control in epilepsy

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 264-277

  Soltesz, Ivan ^a   Alger, Bradley E ^b   Kano, Masanobu ^c   Lee, Sang Hun ^a   Lovinger, David M ^d   Ohno Shosaku, Takako ^e   Watanabe, Masahiko ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

^e KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^f HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANNABINOID; CANNABINOID 1 RECEPTOR; CANNABIS; NEUROTRANSMITTER; ENDOCANNABINOID;

COMORBIDITY; EPILEPSY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

CANNABIS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN WAVES; ENDOCANNABINOIDS; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; NERVE NET; RECEPTOR, CANNABINOID, CB1; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84928104306     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn3937     Document Type: Review

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