Different patterns of neuronal activation and neurodegeneration in the thalamus and cortex of epilepsy-resistant Proechimys rats versus Wistar rats after pilocarpine-induced protracted seizures

Epilepsia

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 832-848

  Andrioli, Anna ^a,b   Fabene, Paolo F ^b   Spreafico, Roberto ^c   Cavalheiro, Esper A ^d   Bentivoglio, Marina ^b  

^a Faculty of Medicine   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^c DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cell death; Cingulate cortex; Corticothalamic system; Fos; Neocortex; Thalamic reticular nucleus

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; PARVALBUMIN; PILOCARPINE; PROTEIN FOS;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL LOSS; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; NERVE CELL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROECHIMYS GUYANNENSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SEIZURE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; THALAMUS; WISTAR RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURONS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS V-FOS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PARVALBUMINS; PILOCARPINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; THALAMUS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 63849342156     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01953.x     Document Type: Article

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