Impaired serotonergic brainstem function during and after seizures

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 2711-2722

  Zhan, Qiong ^a,b,c   Buchanan, Gordon F ^a   Motelow, Joshua E ^a   Andrews, John ^a   Vitkovskiy, Petr ^a   Chen, William C ^a   Serout, Florian ^a   Gummadavelli, Abhijeet ^a   Kundishora, Adam ^a   Furman, Moran ^a   Li, Wei ^a,d   Bo, Xiao ^b   Richerson, George B ^e   Blumenfeld, Hal ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d MEDICAL SCHOOL OF NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brainstem; Consciousness; Respiratory; Serotonin; SUDEP; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BREATHING; COMPLICATION; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; RAPHE NUCLEUS; RAT; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; SEIZURE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; NEURONS; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESPIRATION; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; SEIZURES; SEROTONIN;

EID: 84959572418     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4331-15.2016     Document Type: Article

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