Neuropeptide-Y immunoreactivity in the pilocarpine model of temporal lobe epilepsy

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 186-190

  Lurton, Dominique ^a,b   Cavalheiro, Esper A ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Hippocampus; Immunohistochemistry; NPY; Pilocarpine; Rat

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PILOCARPINE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURON; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MOSSY FIBER; NONHUMAN; PEROXIDASE ANTIPEROXIDASE COMPLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURONS; MALE; MUSCARINIC AGONISTS; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PILOCARPINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0030798003     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00005739     Document Type: Article

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