Absence of excitotoxic neuropathology in microencephalic rats after systemic kainic acid administration

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 218, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 57-61

  Virgili, Marco ^a   Ciani, Elisabetta ^a   Contestabile, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cell death; Excitotoxicity; Hippocampus; Methylazoxymethanol acetate; Microencephalic rats; Olfactory cortex

Indexed keywords

EXCITOTOXIN; KAINIC ACID; METHYLAZOXYMETHANOL;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MICROCEPHALY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY CORTEX; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0030601809     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)13081-0     Document Type: Article

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