Pentylenetetrazol kindling in rats: Is neurodegeneration associated with manifestations of convulsive activity?

Neuroscience and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 741-748

  Pavlova, T V ^a   Yakovlev, A A ^a   Stepanichev, M Yu ^a   Gulyaeva, N V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGHER NERVOUS ACTIVITY AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Convulsions; Hippocampus; Kindling; Neurodegeneration; Oxidative stress; Pentylenetetrazol

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE; PENTETRAZOLE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL COUNT; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; KINDLING; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL LESION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RAT; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CONVULSANTS; HIPPOCAMPUS; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURONS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PENTYLENETETRAZOLE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEIZURES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 33746036041     PISSN: 00970549     EISSN: 1573899X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11055-006-0082-0     Document Type: Article

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