Interactions between limbic, thalamo-striatal-cortical, and central autonomic pathways during epileptic seizure progression

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 411, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 145-161

  Mraovitch, S ^a   Calando, Y ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

c fos; Carbachol; Epilepsy; Functional anatomy; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVE; EPILEPSY; HOMEOSTASIS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS;

ACETYLCHOLINE; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CARBACHOL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHOLINERGIC AGONISTS; CONVULSANTS; CORPUS STRIATUM; EPILEPSY; GENES, FOS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MICROINJECTIONS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE NET; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; THALAMUS;

EID: 0033575703     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19990816)411:1<145::AID-CNE11>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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