Status epilepticus causes selective regional damage and loss of GABAergic neurons in the rat amygdaloid complex

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2711-2725

  Tuunanen, Jarkko ^a   Halonen, Toivo ^a   Pitkänen, Asla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Epilepsy; Kainic acid; Somatostatin; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; KAINIC ACID; SOMATOSTATIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; EPILEPTIC STATE; EPILEPTOGENESIS; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; MALE; NERVE CELL LESION; NONHUMAN; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NEURONS; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOMATOSTATIN; STATUS EPILEPTICUS; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 0030462676     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.1996.tb01566.x     Document Type: Article

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