The effect of electroacupuncture on spontaneous recurrent seizure and expression of GAD67 mRNA in dentate gyrus in a rat model of epilepsy

Brain Research

Volumn 1188, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 165-172

  Guo, Jianjun ^a   Liu, Jianhua ^b   Fu, Wenbin ^b   Ma, Wentao ^a   Xu, Zhenhua ^b   Yuan, Mingquan ^a   Song, Jian ^a   Hu, Jiming ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUANGZHOU UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Acupoint; Dentate gyrus; Electroacupuncture; Epilepsy; Glutamic acid decarboxylase; Spontaneous recurrent seizure

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; LITHIUM; MESSENGER RNA; PILOCARPINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPILEPSY; GENE EXPRESSION; GRANULE CELL; HAMSTRING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SEIZURE;

ACUPUNCTURE POINTS; ANIMALS; CONVULSANTS; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; EPILEPSY; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECURRENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

RATTUS;

EID: 37349001618     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.10.017     Document Type: Article

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