Loss of hippocampal serine protease BSP1/neuropsin predisposes to global seizure activity

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 18, 2001, Pages 6993-7000

  Davies, Ben ^a,b   Kearns, Ian R ^a   Ure, Jan ^a   Davies, Ceri H ^a,c   Lathe, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain serine protease; BSP1; Cortex; Epileptiform; Fos; Hippocampus; Kainic acid; Knock out; Long term potentiation; LTP; Mouse; Mutant; Neuropsin; Seizure; Targeting

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; GENE TARGETING; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TONIC SEIZURE;

EID: 0035885098     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.21-18-06993.2001     Document Type: Article

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