Immunocytochemical localization of GABA immunoreactivity in dentate granule cells of normal and kindled rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 212, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 41-44

  Lehmann, Holger ^a   Ebert, Ulrich ^a   Löscher, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Glutamate decarboxylase; Hippocampus; Kindling; Aminobutyric acid

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FEMALE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; KINDLING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0030570398     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12777-4     Document Type: Article

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