Antisense oligonucleotides to C-fos reduce postictal seizure susceptibility following fully kindled seizures in rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 268, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 143-146

  Rocha, Luisa ^a,b   Ondarza, Rodolfo ^c   Kaufman, Daniel L ^d  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PSIQUIATRÍA RAMÓN DE LA FUENTE MUÑIZ   (Mexico)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Antisense; C Fos; Kindling; Postictal suppression

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN C FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; GENE REPRESSION; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; KINDLING; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; RAT; SEIZURE;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; MALE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEIZURES;

EID: 0033603473     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00398-5     Document Type: Article

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