Loss of NADPH diaphorase-positive neurons in the hippocampal formation of chronic pilocarpine-epileptic rats

Hippocampus

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 303-313

  Hamani, Clement ^a   Tenório, Frank ^b   Mendez Otero, Rosalia ^b   Mello, Luiz Eugênio A M ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Entorhinal cortex; Epilepsy; GABAergic; Hippocampus; Nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; NITRIC OXIDE; PILOCARPINE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ARTICLE; CELL DESTRUCTION; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPILEPSY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; STAINING; SUBICULUM; TISSUE LEVEL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NADPH DEHYDROGENASE; NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE; PILOCARPINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0033013105     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1063(1999)9:3<303::AID-HIPO9>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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