Basal expression and induction of glutamate decarboxylase and GABA in excitatory granule cells of the rat and monkey hippocampal dentate gyrus

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 373, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 593-618

  Sloviter, Robert S ^a,b   Dichter, Marc A ^d   Rachinsky, Tara L ^d   Dean, Evelyn ^a   Goodman, Jeffrey H ^a   Sollas, Anne L ^a   Martin, David L ^c  

^a HELEN HAYES HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

epilepsy; hippocampus; in situ hybridization; inhibition; seizures

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DENTATE GYRUS; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENE EXPRESSION; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MONKEY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ANIMALS; BASAL METABOLISM; DENTATE GYRUS; ENZYME INDUCTION; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISOENZYMES; MACACA NEMESTRINA; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEIZURES;

EID: 0029813744     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19960930)373:4<593::AID-CNE8>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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