The effect of electrolytic lesioning of the midbrain prior to amygdala kindling in rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 227, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 83-86

  Chiba, Shigeru ^a   Wada, Juhn A ^b  

^a ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amygdaloid body; Brainstem; Kindling; Rats; Seizures

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROLYSIS; KINDLING; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BRAIN INJURIES; ELECTROLYSIS; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; RATS;

EID: 0030991970     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00311-X     Document Type: Article

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