Amygdala-kindled and pentylenetetrazole-induced seizures in glutamate transporter GLAST-deficient mice

Brain Research

Volumn 845, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 92-96

  Watanabe, Takemi ^a   Morimoto, Kiyoshi ^a   Hirao, Toru ^a   Suwaki, Hiroshi ^a   Watase, Kei ^c   Tanaka, Kohichi ^b  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

GLAST; Kindling; Knockout mice; Pentylenetetrazole; Primary generalized epilepsy; Secondary generalized epilepsy

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; PENTETRAZOLE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; KINDLING; MOUSE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEM X-AG; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; CONVULSANTS; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; FEMALE; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PENTYLENETETRAZOLE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0032873812     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(99)01945-9     Document Type: Article

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