Amygdala kindling alters N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor subunit messenger RNA expression in the rat supraoptic nucleus

Neuroscience

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 985-992

  Al Ghoul, W M ^a   Meeker, R B ^a,b   Greenwood, R S ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

epilepsy; excitatory amino acids; glutamate; hypothalamus; plasticity; vasopressin

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; VASOPRESSIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KINDLING; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 0030964088     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(96)00521-0     Document Type: Article

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