Region-specific modulation of limbic seizure susceptibility by ovarian steroids

Brain Research

Volumn 842, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 132-138

  Velíšek, Libor ^a,b   Velíšková, Jana ^a,b   Etgen, Anne M ^a   Stanton, Patric K ^a   Moshé, Solomon L ^a,b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Montefiore/Einstein Epilepsy M   (United States)

Author keywords

Entorhinal cortex; Estrogen; Flurothyl; Hippocampus; Progesterone; Seizure

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; FLUROTHYL; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; LIMBIC CORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE;

ANIMALS; CONVULSANTS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FLUROTHYL; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAGNESIUM; OVARIECTOMY; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SEIZURES;

EID: 18144443826     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(99)01858-2     Document Type: Article

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