Altered connections between neocortical and heterotopic areas in methylazoxymethanol-treated rat

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 32, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 49-62

  Colacitti, Claudia ^a   Sancini, Giulio ^a   Franceschetti, Silvana ^a   Cattabeni, Flaminio ^b   Avanzini, Giuliano ^a   Spreafico, Roberto ^a   Di Luca, Monica ^b   Battaglia, Giorgio ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain development; Brain dysgenesis; Cerebral migrational and organizational disorders; MAM; Neuronal migration; Periventricular nodular heterotopia

Indexed keywords

METHYLAZOXYMETHANOL;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CELL MIGRATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; HETEROTOPIA; NEOCORTEX; NERVE TRACT; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; AXONAL TRANSPORT; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; CHORISTOMA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; METHYLAZOXYMETHANOL ACETATE; NEOCORTEX; NEURONS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TERATOGENS;

EID: 0032168829     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-1211(98)00039-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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