Spontaneous intracellular calcium oscillations in cortical astrocytes from a patient with intractable childhood epilepsy (Rasmussen's encephalitis)

GLIA

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 332-337

  Manning Jr , Timothy J ^a   Sontheimer, Harald ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium oscillations; Calcium waves; Fura 2; Gila; Seizure

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; ENCEPHALITIS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TIME;

ASTROCYTES; CALCIUM; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENCEPHALITIS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 9844254484     PISSN: 08941491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1136(199711)21:3<332::AID-GLIA8>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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