Hippocampal AMPA and NMDA mRNA levels and subunit immunoreactivity in human temporal lobe epilepsy patients and a rodent model of chronic mesial limbic epilepsy

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 32, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 154-171

  Mathern, Gary W ^a,b   Pretorius, James K ^b   Leite, Joao P ^c   Kornblum, Harley I ^a,b   Mendoza, Delia ^b   Lozada, Alana ^b   Bertram III, Edward H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex partial seizures; Excitatory amino acid receptors; Human hippocampi; Rat models

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CELL DENSITY; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MOSSY FIBER; NERVE CELL; NERVE SPROUTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SCLEROSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; REFERENCE VALUES; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032168571     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-1211(98)00048-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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