The effect of hippocampal dentate granule cell lesions upon the limbic seizure model of rats

Brain and Nerve

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 643-649

  Maeda, Takahiro ^a   Hashizume, Kiyotaka ^b   Sako, Kazuhiro ^b   Tanaka, Tatsuya ^b  

^a ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Amygdala; Colchicine; Epilepsy; Hippocampal granular cell; Kainic acid

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE; KAINIC ACID;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN METABOLISM; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; GLUCOSE UTILIZATION; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; RAT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; COLCHICINE; DENTATE GYRUS; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; KAINIC ACID; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEIZURES;

EID: 0031847209     PISSN: 00068969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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