Effects of pinealectomy and the treatment with melatonin on the temporal lobe epilepsy in rats

Brain Research

Volumn 1043, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 24-31

  De Lima, Eliângela ^a   Soares Jr , José Maria ^a   Del Carmen Sanabria Garrido, Yaima ^a   Valente, Sandra Gomes ^a   Priel, Margareth Rose ^a   Baracat, Edmund Chada ^a   Cavalheiro, Esper Abrão ^a   Da Graça Naffah Mazzacoratti, Maria ^a   Amado, Débora ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Experimental model; Melatonin; Pilocarpine; Pinealectomy

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN; PILOCARPINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EUTHANASIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN TISSUE; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MORTALITY; MOSSY FIBER; NERVE CELL; NICK END LABELING; NISSL STAINING; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PINEALECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 18144409412     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2005.02.027     Document Type: Article

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