Immunocytochemical mapping of Fos protein following seizures in gerbils indicates the activation of hippocampal neurons

Hippocampus

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 31-36

  Mirzaeian, Lovik ^a   Ribak, Charles E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dentate gyrus; Genetic epilepsy; Granule cells; Limbic structures; Pyramidal cells

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; PROTEIN C FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENETIC MODEL; GERBIL; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; PYRIFORM CORTEX; SEIZURE;

ANIMALS; DENTATE GYRUS; ENVIRONMENT; EPILEPSY; GERBILLINAE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOGISTIC MODELS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; SEIZURES;

EID: 0033962788     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1063(2000)10:1<31::AID-HIPO3>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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