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Ions in the brain : normal function, seizures, and stroke /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Somjen, George G.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Brain > physiopathology.
Brain Diseases > physiopathology.
Ions > metabolism.
Table of Contents:
  • pt. I. Ions and water in the brain
  • 1. The blood-brain barrier
  • 2. The regulation of brain ions
  • 3. Osmotic stress and the brain
  • 4. The influence of ion concentrations on neuron functions
  • pt. II. Cerebral seizures
  • 5. A primer of epileptiform seizures
  • 6. Experimental seizures
  • 7. Electrophysiology of seizures
  • 8. Ions and seizures
  • 9. Solving seizure mechanisms by simulations
  • 10. Seizures, channels, genes
  • 11. Mechanisms of action of antiepileptic drugs
  • pt. III. Spreading depression of Leão
  • 12. Introduction to spreading depression : extracellular electric signs
  • 13. Ion fluxes during spreading depression
  • 14. Membrane potential and input resistance during spreading depression
  • 15. The mechanism of spreading depression
  • 16. Solving the puzzle of spreading depression by computer simulation
  • pt. IV. Pathological biophysics of cerebral hypoxia and stroke
  • 17. Hypoxia, asphyxia, and ischemia
  • 18. Mechanism of early, reversible hypoxic synaptic failure
  • 19. Irreversible hypoxic (ischemic) neuron injury