Transplantation of GABAergic Interneurons into the neonatal primary visual cortex reduces absence seizures in stargazer mice

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2970-2979

  Hammad, Mohamed ^a   Schmidt, Stephen L ^a,b   Zhang, Xuying ^a   Bray, Ryan ^a   Frohlich, Flavio ^a,b   Ghashghaei, H Troy ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Absence seizure; MGE transplantation; Network activity; Stargazer; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; PROTEIN C FOS; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CACNG2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; CALCIUM CHANNEL; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN;

ABSENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; GANGLION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERNEURON; MOUSE; NEOCORTICAL SLICE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEURAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECTS; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; GENETICS; IN VITRO STUDY; MAMMALIAN EMBRYO; MEDIAN EMINENCE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; METABOLISM; NEOCORTEX; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNELS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; GABAERGIC NEURONS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IN VITRO TECHNIQUES; MEDIAN EMINENCE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEOCORTEX; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84976218744     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu094     Document Type: Article

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