Seizure suppression in kindling epilepsy by grafts of fetal GABAergic neurons in rat substantia nigra

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 196-209

  Löscher, Wolfgang ^a   Ebert, Ulrich ^a   Lehmann, Holger ^a   Rosenthal, Christoph ^b   Nikkhah, Guido ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b NORDSTADT HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; GABA; Intracerebral grafting; Seizure propagation; Substantia nigra; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; KINDLING; NERVE GRAFT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

EID: 2642702860     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4547(19980115)51:2<196::AID-JNR8>3.3.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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