Neuronal damage after the injection of aminooxyacetic acid into the rat entorhinal cortex: A silver impregnation study

Neuroscience

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1165-1178

  Du, F ^a   Eid, T ^a,b   Schwarcz, R ^a  

^a MARYLAND PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Excitotoxic; Hippocampus; Limbic; Neurodegeneration; Parahippocampal; Seizure

Indexed keywords

AMINOOXYACETIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPILEPTOGENESIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NERVE CELL LESION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

EID: 0343307003     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(97)00354-0     Document Type: Article

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