Clostridium perfringens epsilon toxin causes excessive release of glutamate in the mouse hippocampus

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 189, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 109-113

  Miyamoto, Osamu ^a   Sumitani, Kazunori ^a   Nakamura, Takehiro ^a   Yamagami, Shin Ichi ^a   Miyata, Shigeru ^a   Itano, Toshifumi ^a   Negi, Tetsuro ^a   Okabe, Akinobu ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clostridium perfringens; Electrocorticogram; Epsilon toxin; Glutamate; Hippocampus; Seizure

Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIUM TOXIN; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MICRODIALYSIS; MOUSE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GLUTAMATES; HIPPOCAMPUS; MICE; SEIZURES;

CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS;

EID: 0034255926     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00262-7     Document Type: Article

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