Influence of penicillin-induced epileptic activity during pregnancy on postnatal hippocampal nestin expression in rats: Light and electron microscopic observations

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 726-733

  Baka, Meral ^a   Uyanikgil, Yiǧit ^a   Yurtseven, Mine ^a   Turgut, Mehmet ^b,c  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b ADNAN MENDERES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c Cumhuriyet Mahallesi   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Hippocampus; Nestin; Postnatal; Rat

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NESTIN; PENICILLIN G; PEROXIDASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN MATURATION; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PENICILLINS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS;

EID: 5744241137     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-004-1010-7     Document Type: Article

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