Beneficial effects of melatonin on morphological changes in postnatal cerebellar tissue owing to epileptiform activity during pregnancy in rats: Light and immunohistochemical study

Developmental Brain Research

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 79-86

  Uyanikgil, Yiǧit ^a   Turgut, Mehmet ^b,c   Ateş, Utku ^a   Baka, Meral ^a   Yurtseven, Mine E ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ADNAN MENDERES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Epilepsy; Melatonin; Nestin; Postnatal; Rat

Indexed keywords

KETAMINE; MELATONIN; NESTIN; PENICILLIN G; XYLAZINE;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN MATURATION; BRAIN TISSUE; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; MOTHER; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEWBORN; NEWBORN PERIOD; NONHUMAN; PERFUSION; PERINATAL PERIOD; PINEALECTOMY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SEIZURE;

ANIMALS; CEREBELLUM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; MELATONIN; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PINEAL GLAND; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RATS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 25144442755     PISSN: 01653806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devbrainres.2005.07.004     Document Type: Article

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