Astrocytic proliferation in the piriform cortex of amygdala-kindled subjects: A quantitative study in partial versus fully kindled brains

Brain Research

Volumn 1022, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 47-53

  Vessal, Mani ^a   Dugani, Chandrasagar B ^a   Solomon, Dianand A ^a   Burnham, W McIntyre ^a   Ivy, Gwen O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amygdala kindling; Astrocytic proliferation; Epilepsy; GFAP; Piriform cortex; Vimentin

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; BROXURIDINE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; VIMENTIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL COUNT; CELL DIVISION; CELL LABELING; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; EPILEPSY; INJECTION; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; KINDLING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIFORM CORTEX; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SEIZURE; STIMULATION; TIME; TISSUE SECTION;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CELL COUNT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTRODES; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; MALE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; VIMENTIN;

EID: 4444272793     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2004.06.071     Document Type: Article

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