Potassium Changing from Pro- to Anti-convulsant in the Epileptic Juvenile Rat Hippocampus

Elevations in extracellular potassium (K+e) accompany seizure-like events (SLEs), but elevated K+ may also participate in seizure cessation. The objective of this thesis was to investigate the possibility that K+ may undergo a pro- to anti-convulsant switch in the epileptic juvenile (postnatal day 1...

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Main Author: Yu, Wilson Jonathan
Other Authors: Carlen, Peter Louis
Language:en_ca
Published: 2009
Subjects:
Ih
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/19009