The action of pulse-modulated GSM radiation increases regional changes in brain activity and c-Fos expression in cortical and subcortical areas in a rat model of picrotoxin-induced seizure proneness

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1484-1499

  López Martín, Maria Elena ^a   Brogains J ^a   Relova Quinteiro, J L ^a   Cadarso Suarez C ^a   Jorge Barreiro, F J ^a   Ares Pena, F J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cortex; Fos; Hippocampus; Seizure; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

PICROTOXIN; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOFREQUENCY; RAT; SEIZURE; THALAMUS INTRALAMINAR NUCLEUS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DISEASE MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; PICROTOXIN; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIO WAVES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEIZURES;

EID: 65549112562     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: 10974547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.21951     Document Type: Article

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