Ventricular dilatation over several weeks following induction of excitotoxic (systemic lithium/pilocarpine) lesions: Potential role of damage to the substantia nigra reticulata

International Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 94, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 63-74

  Persinger, Michael A ^a   Peredery, Oksana ^a   Desjardins, Dawn ^a   Eastman, Alexander ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Insidious necrosis; Rat; Seizure; Substantia nigra reticulata; Thalamus lateral ventricles

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM; NEUROTOXIN; PILOCARPINE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; BRAIN; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG EFFECT; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SEIZURE; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; THALAMUS; TIME; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ATROPHY; BRAIN; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; LITHIUM; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROTOXINS; PILOCARPINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEIZURES; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; THALAMUS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031596343     PISSN: 00207454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00207459808986439     Document Type: Article

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