Epileptiform activity and hippocampal damage produced by intrahippocampal injection of guanidinosuccinic acid in rat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 209, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 121-124

  Pan, J C ^a   Pei, Y Q ^a   An, L ^a   Lai, L ^a   D'Hooge, R ^b   De Deyn, P P ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Guanidinosuccinic acid; Hippocampus; Rat

Indexed keywords

GUANIDINOSUCCINIC ACID; KETAMINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE;

EID: 0029889065     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12615-X     Document Type: Article

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