Sox1-deficient mice suffer from epilepsy associated with abnormal ventral forebrain development and olfactory cortex hyperexcitability

Neuroscience

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 421-432

  Malas, S ^a,d   Postlethwaite, M ^b   Ekonomou, A ^a   Whalley, B ^b   Nishiguchi, S ^a,g   Wood, H ^a,e   Meldrum, B ^c,f   Constanti, A ^b   Episkopou, V ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d CYPRUS INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND GENETICS   (Cyprus)

^e Macmillan Press   (United Kingdom)

^f KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g Hirakata Ryoikuen   (Japan)

Author keywords

Intracellular recording; Nucleus accumbens shell; Olfactory (piriform) cortex; Olfactory tubercle; Seizures; Ventral striatum

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GENE FUNCTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE;

EID: 0038062630     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(03)00158-1     Document Type: Article

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