Anatomical and functional aspects of μ opioid receptors in epileptic WAG/Rij rats

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 167-173

  Przewlocka B ^a   Lason W ^a   Turchan, J ^a   De Bruin, N ^b   Van Luijtelaar, G ^b   Przewlocki R ^a   Coenen, A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHARMACOLOGY   (Poland)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

opioid receptor; Absence epilepsy; DAMGO; Spike wave discharges; WAG Rij rats

Indexed keywords

ENKEPHALIN[2 DEXTRO ALANINE 4 METHYLPHENYLALANINE 5 GLYCINE]; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR;

ABSENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FRONTAL CORTEX; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR DENSITY; SPIKE WAVE; THALAMUS;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; FRONTAL LOBE; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; PUTAMEN; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, MU; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 0345698801     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-1211(97)00081-8     Document Type: Article

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