NMDA receptors in the inferior colliculus are critically involved in audiogenic seizures in the adult rats with neonatal hypothyroidism

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 94-101

  Higashiyama, A ^a,b   Ishida, N ^b   Nishimura, T ^b   Yasuda, S ^b   Kuroda, Y ^c   McEwen, B S ^c   Kato, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHIGA PREFECTURE   (Japan)

^b SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AMPA receptor antagonists; Audiogenic seizure; c fos mRNA; Hypothyroidism; Inferior colliculus; NMDA receptor antagonists

Indexed keywords

DIZOCILPINE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; SEPTUM NUCLEUS; STRIA TERMINALIS;

EID: 0031663391     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1998.6871     Document Type: Article

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