Expression of glutamine synthetase and glutamate dehydrogenase in the latent phase and chronic phase in the kainate model of temporal lobe epilepsy

GLIA

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 856-868

  Hammer, Janniche ^a,b   Alvestad, Silje ^b   Osen, Kirsten K ^a   Skare, Öivind ^a   Sonnewald, Ursula ^b   Ottersen, Ole Petter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Epileptogenesis; GFAP; Gliosis; Hippocampus; Seizures

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; KAINIC ACID; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN REGION; CATABOLISM; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOGOLD ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER 2; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; HIPPOCAMPUS; KAINIC ACID; MALE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 46749091759     PISSN: 08941491     EISSN: 10981136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/glia.20659     Document Type: Article

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