Fos oncoprotein expression in the rat forebrain following muscimol-induced absence seizures

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 210, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 169-172

  Zhang, Xia ^a,b   Le Gal La Salle, Gildas ^b   Ridoux, Valerie ^b   Yu, Peter H ^c   Ju, Gong ^a  

^a Institute of Neurosciences   (China)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Abscence seizure; c fos oncogene; Forebrain; Fos oncoprotein; Immunohistochemistry; Muscimol; Rat

Indexed keywords

MUSCIMOL; ONCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREBRAIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE;

EID: 0029989047     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12697-5     Document Type: Article

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