Reduction of A1 adenosine receptors in rat hippocampus after kainic acid-induced limbic seizures

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 284, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 49-52

  Ekonomou, Antigoni ^a   Sperk, Günther ^b   Kostopoulos, George ^a   Angelatou, Fevronia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

A1 adenosine receptors; Kainic acid; Limbic seizures; Rat

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE A1 RECEPTOR; KAINIC ACID; POSTSYNAPTIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; DENTATE GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING; RECEPTOR DENSITY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ADENOSINE; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; KAINIC ACID; MALE; NEURONS; RADIOLIGAND ASSAY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, PURINERGIC P1; SEIZURES; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 0034697355     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)00954-X     Document Type: Article

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