Postnatal inflammation increases seizure susceptibility in adult rats

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 27, 2008, Pages 6904-6913

  Galic, Michael A ^a   Riazi, Kiarash ^b   Heida, James G ^a   Mouihate, Abdeslam ^b   Fournier, Neil M ^d   Spencer, Sarah J ^b   Kalynchuk, Lisa E ^d   Teskey, G Campbell ^c   Pittman, Quentin J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cytokine; Development; Interleukin 1 ; Lipopolysaccharide; Seizure; Tumor necrosis factor

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOPYRIDINE; CYTOKINE; ENDOTOXIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; KAINIC ACID; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; LITHIUM; PENTETRAZOLE; PILOCARPINE; RECOMBINANT TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA ANTIBODY; CONVULSANT AGENT; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MICROGLIA; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE SUSCEPTIBILITY; STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIAL; AGE; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENCEPHALITIS; EPILEPSY; GLIOSIS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; INTRACEREBROVENTRICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEWBORN; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SENSORY NERVE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CONVULSANTS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ENCEPHALITIS; EPILEPSY; GLIOSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 49049097966     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1901-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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