Vulnerability and plasticity of the GABA system in the pilocarpine model of spontaneous recurrent seizures

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 207-218

  Houser, Carolyn R ^a,b   Esclapez, Monique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

dentate gyrus; epilepsy; GAD65; glutamate decarboxylase; hippocampus; temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; PILOCARPINE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PILOCARPINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GABA; RNA, MESSENGER; SEIZURES;

EID: 0030559684     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-1211(96)00054-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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