Conditionally immortalized cell lines, engineered to produce and release GABA, modulate the development of behavioral seizures

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 481-489

  Thompson, Kerry ^a   Anantharam, Vellareddy ^a   Behrstock, Soshana ^a   Bongarzone, Ernesto ^a   Campagnoni, Anthony ^a   Tobin, Allan J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; GABA; GAD; Kindling; Seizures; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KINDLING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

EID: 0034097604     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1999.7305     Document Type: Article

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