Picrotoxin-, kainic acid- and seizure-induced Fos in brainstem, with special reference to catecholamine cell groups

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 163-169

  Willoughby, John O ^a   MacKenzie, Lorraine ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brainstem; Fos; Kainic acid; Locus coeruleus; Picrotoxin; Seizures; Tyrosine hydroxylase

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; KAINIC ACID; PICROTOXIN; PROTEIN C FOS; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CATECHOLAMINE NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, FOS; KAINIC ACID; MALE; NEURONS; NEUROTOXINS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PICROTOXIN; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEIZURES; STEREOTYPED BEHAVIOR; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0032891753     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-0102(99)00008-5     Document Type: Article

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