NMDA-NR1 and AMPA-GluR4 receptor subunit immunoreactivities in the absence epileptic WAG/Rij rat

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 119-128

  van de Bovenkamp Janssen, Maartje C ^a   van der Kloet, Joeri C ^a,b   van Luijtelaar, Gilles ^b   Roubos, Eric W ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Peri oral somatosensory cortex; Quantitative immunocytochemistry; Rostral reticular thalamic nucleus; Spike wave discharges

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 4; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 1;

ABSENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPIKE WAVE; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

AGING; ALPHA-AMINO-3-HYDROXY-5-METHYL-4-ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; ANIMALS; ANTERIOR THALAMIC NUCLEI; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; N-METHYLASPARTATE; RATS; RATS, INBRED ACI; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 33646129912     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2006.01.003     Document Type: Article

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