Kainate Receptors: Role in Epilepsy

Kainate (KA) is a potent neurotoxin that has been widely used experimentally to induce acute brain seizures and, after repetitive treatments, as a chronic model of temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), with similar features to those observed in human patients with TLE. However, whether KA activates KA recep...

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Main Authors: Rafael Falcón-Moya1, Talvinder S. Sihra, Antonio Rodríguez-Moreno
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnmol.2018.00217/full