Pinealectomy stimulates and exogenous melatonin inhibits harmful effects of epileptiform activity during pregnancy in the hippocampus of newborn rats: An immunohistochemical study

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 481-488

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

^a ADNAN MENDERES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b EGE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^c NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Hippocampus; Melatonin; Nestin; Pinealectomy; Postnatal; Rat

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN; NESTIN; PENICILLIN G;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MATURATION; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERINATAL PERIOD; PINEALECTOMY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RAT STRAIN;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTICONVULSANTS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; MALE; MELATONIN; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PINEAL GLAND; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS;

EID: 33646134132     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-005-0012-4     Document Type: Article

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