Inferior collicular seizure generalization produces site-selective cortical induction of cyclooxygenase 2 (COX-2)

Brain Research

Volumn 767, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 370-374

  McCown, Thomas J ^a   Knapp, Darin J ^a   Crews, Fulton T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyclooxygenase; Immediate early gene; Inferior colliculus; Seizure

Indexed keywords

CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; MITOGENIC AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; ENZYME INDUCTION; FOREBRAIN; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MALE; MEDIAL GENICULATE BODY; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; SEIZURE THRESHOLD; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; ENZYME INDUCTION; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; ISOENZYMES; MALE; PROSTAGLANDIN-ENDOPEROXIDE SYNTHASES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEIZURES;

EID: 0030866881     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)00773-7     Document Type: Article

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