TsTx toxin isolated from Tityus serrulatus scorpion venom induces spontaneous recurrent seizures and mossy fiber sprouting

Epilepsia

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 904-911

  Sandoval, Maria Regina Lopes ^a   Lebrun, Ivo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Hippocampal damage; Mossy fiber sprouting; Scorpion toxin

Indexed keywords

SCORPION VENOM; TITYUS TOXIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC STATE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MICROINJECTION; NERVE CELL; NISSL SUBSTANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCORPION; SEIZURE;

ANIMALS; CELL DEATH; CONVULSANTS; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURONS; NEUROTOXINS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SCORPION VENOMS; SEIZURES; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

EID: 0038153857     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1528-1157.2003.38001.x     Document Type: Article

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