Locus coeruleus and neuronal plasticity in a model of focal limbic epilepsy

Epilepsia

Volumn 47, Issue SUPPL. 5, 2006, Pages 21-25

  Giorgi, Filippo S ^a   Mauceli, Giuseppe ^a   Blandini, Fabio ^b   Ruggieri, Stefano ^c   Paparelli, Antonio ^a   Murri, Luigi ^a   Fornai, Francesco ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b C MONDINO NATIONAL NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c IRCCS NEUROMED   (Italy)

Author keywords

DSP 4; Epileptogenesis; Mossy fiber sprouting; Noradrenaline; Piriform cortex; Status epilepticus

Indexed keywords

2 BROMO N (2 CHLOROETHYL) N ETHYLBENZYLAMINE; BICUCULLINE; NEUROTOXIN; NORADRENALIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; MICROINJECTION; MOSSY FIBER; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIFORM CORTEX; RAT; SCORING SYSTEM; SEIZURE;

ANIMALS; BENZYLAMINES; BICUCULLINE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEUROTOXINS; NOREPINEPHRINE; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

EID: 33845515289     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2006.00872.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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