Age-dependent differences in flurothyl-induced c-fos and c-jun mRNA expression in the mouse brain

Developmental Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 294-299

  Storey, Thomas W ^a   Rho, Jong M ^b   White, Sylvia S ^c   Sankar, Raman ^d   Szot, Patricia ^c,e  

^a KECK GRADUATE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Puget Sound Health Care System   (United States)

Author keywords

c fos; c jun; Epilepsy; Flurothyl; Hippocampus; Immature; Neocortex; Seizure

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; FLUROTHYL; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN C FOS; PROTEIN C JUN;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; MALE; MATURITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEIZURE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CONVULSANTS; FLUROTHYL; GENES, FOS; MALE; MICE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-JUN; RNA, MESSENGER; SEIZURES;

EID: 0036444344     PISSN: 03785866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000066743     Document Type: Article

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