High susceptibility of the anterior and posterior piriform cortex to induction of convulsions by bicuculline

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 4195-4205

  Ebert, Ulrich ^a   Wlaz, Piotr ^a   Löscher, Wolfgang ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES IN LUBLIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; GABA; Olfactory cortex; Seizures; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; BICUCULLINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG INFUSION; DRUG SENSITIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; INJECTION SITE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AXONAL TRANSPORT; BICUCULLINE; FEMALE; MALE; MEDIODORSAL THALAMIC NUCLEUS; MICROINJECTIONS; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; SEIZURES;

EID: 0034515774     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2000.01315.x     Document Type: Article

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