Inflammatory cytokines and related genes are induced in the rat hippocampus by limbic status epilepticus

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 2623-2633

  De Simoni, Maria Grazia ^a   Perego, Carlo ^a   Ravizza, Teresa ^b   Moneta, Daniela ^b   Conti, Mirko ^b   Marchesi, Francesco ^b   De Luigi, Ada ^a   Garattini, Silvio ^b   Vezzani, Annamaria ^b  

^a Lab of Inflammation and Nerv S   (Italy)

^b MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

Author keywords

Interleukin 1; Interleukin 1 receptor antagonist; Interleukin 6; Nitric oxide synthase; Seizures; Tumour necrosis factor

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPILEPTIC STATE; GLIA; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOGENETICS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LIMBIC CORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTISENSE ELEMENTS (GENETICS); BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CYTOKINES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN-1; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; MICROGLIA; MICROINJECTIONS; NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; SIALOGLYCOPROTEINS; STATUS EPILEPTICUS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0033943296     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2000.00140.x     Document Type: Article

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