Increased excitability in cortico-striatal synaptic pathway in a model of paroxysmal dystonia

Dystonias are movement disorders whose pathomechanism is largely unknown. Dystonic dtsz hamsters represent a model of primary dystonias, where alterations of striatal interneuron density and sodium channel function in projection neurones were described. Here, using cortico-striatal slices, we explor...

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Main Authors: Rüdiger Köhling, Uwe-Robert Koch, Melanie Hamann, Angelika Richter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2004-06-01
Series:Neurobiology of Disease
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969996104000348