Effect of inherent epileptic seizures on brain injury after transient cerebral ischemia in Mongolian gerbils

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 154, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 176-182

  Herrmann, Martina ^a   Stern, Martin ^a   Vollenweider, Florence ^a   Nitsch, Cordula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Carotid artery occlusion; Hippocampus; Neuronal death; Seizures; Striatum

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN INJURY; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL LOSS; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; GERBIL; GLIA CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEIZURE; SURVIVAL; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; UPREGULATION; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CORPUS STRIATUM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY; GERBILLINAE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLIOSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; REACTION TIME;

EID: 1642578776     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-003-1655-6     Document Type: Article

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