Extracellular amino acids in the rat hippocampus during picrotoxin threshold seizures in chronic microdialysis experiments

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 248, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 53-56

  Sierra Paredes, Germán ^a   Galán Valiente, Josefa ^a   Dolores Vazquez Illanes, M ^a   Aguilar Veiga, Elena ^a   Soto Otero, Ramón ^a   Mendez Alvarez, Estefanía ^a   Sierra Marcuño, Germán ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Extracellular amino acids; Hippocampus; Microdialysis; Picrotoxin; Seizures

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ASPARTIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE; PICROTOXIN; TAURINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RAT;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ACID; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; PICROTOXIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEIZURES; TAURINE;

EID: 0345451058     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00332-2     Document Type: Article

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