Blockade of neuropsin, a serine protease, ameliorates kindling epilepsy

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 760-764

  Momota, Yoshiharu ^a   Yoshida, Shigetaka ^a   Ito, Jiro ^b   Shibata, Masao ^c   Kato, Keiko ^a   Sakurai, Katsutoshi ^a   Matsumoto, Kazumasa ^a   Shiosaka, Sadao ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JBC Inc   (Japan)

^c Medical & Biological Laboratories Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Kindling; Neuropsin; Serine protease

Indexed keywords

SERINE PROTEINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; KINDLING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; KALLIKREINS; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; MALE; MICE; PRECIPITIN TESTS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS;

EID: 0031842366     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1998.00068.x     Document Type: Article

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