Behavioral effects of bicuculline microinjection in the dorsal versus ventral hippocampal formation of rats, and control of seizures by nigral muscimol

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 58, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 155-165

  Rodrigues, Marcelo Cairrão Araujo ^a   De Oliveira Beleboni, Renê ^a   Coutinho Netto, Joaquim ^a   Dos Santos, Wagner Ferreira ^a   Garcia Cairasco, Norberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

AMY; amygdala; DH; DHF; dorsal hippocampal formation; dorsal hippocampus; FrPbA2; ICV; intracerebroventricular (ly); SNPR; substantia nigra pars reticulata; ventral hippocampal formation; ventral hippocampal formation amygdala area; VHF; VHF AMY

Indexed keywords

BICUCULLINE; MUSCIMOL; NEUROTOXIN; NIPECOTIC ACID;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID UPTAKE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

ANIMALS; BICUCULLINE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; MUSCIMOL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEIZURES; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

EID: 2142808743     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2004.02.001     Document Type: Article

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