Alumina gel injections into the temporal lobe of rhesus monkeys cause complex partial seizures and morphological changes found in human temporal lobe epilepsy

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 401, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 266-290

  Ribak, Charles E ^a   Seress, László ^a,b   Weber, Peter ^a   Epstein, Charles M ^c   Henry, Thomas R ^c   Bakay, Roy A E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^c EMORY CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Entorhinal cortex; Hippocampus; Mossy fibers; Timm's staining

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM OXIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GRANULOCYTE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPILEPSY, COMPLEX PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; GELS; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; STAINING AND LABELING; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0032538983     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19981116)401:2<266::AID-CNE8>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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