Acute effect of c-fos antisense oligodeoxynucleotide on hippocampal partial seizures elicited by electrical stimulation in rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 225, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 149-152

  Katsumori, Hiroshi ^a,b,c,d   Hashimoto, Kenji ^a   Tomitaka, Shin Ichiro ^a   Osawa, Makiko ^b   Minabe, Yoshio ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

antisense oligodeoxynucleotide; c fos; den tate gyrus; hippocampus; immunocytochemistry; rat; seizure

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACEREBROVENTRICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; ONCOGENE C JUN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0030974535     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00203-6     Document Type: Article

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