Changes of immunoreactive neuropeptide Y, somatostatin and corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) in the brain of a novel epileptic mutant rat, Ihara's genetically epileptic rat (IGER)

Brain Research

Volumn 776, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 255-260

  Takahashi, Yoshinari ^a   Sadamatsu, Miyuki ^a   Kanai, Hirohiko ^a   Akira Masui, ^a   Amano, Shigeru ^a   Ihara, Nobuo ^b   Kato, Nobumasa ^a  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b Institute of ICR Research   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corticotropin releasing factor; Epilepsy; Ihara's genetically epileptic rat; Neuropeptide Y; Somatostatin

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; SOMATOSTATIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CORPUS STRIATUM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIFORM CORTEX; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; MALE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RATS, WISTAR; SOMATOSTATIN;

EID: 0031445943     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)01119-0     Document Type: Article

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