Fos in locus coeruleus neurons following audiogenic seizure in the genetically epilepsy-prone rat: Comparison to electroshock and pentylenetetrazol seizure models

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 233, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 21-24

  Eells, Jeffrey B ^a   Clough, Rich W ^a   Browning, Ronald A ^a   Jobe, Phillip C ^b  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

c Fos; Epilepsy; Immediate early gene expression; Norepinephrine

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDIOGENIC SEIZURE; ELECTRIC SHOCK; EPILEPSY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; LOCUS CERULEUS; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0030848694     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00611-3     Document Type: Article

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