Immunohistochemical evaluation of the protein expression of nerve growth factor and its TrkA receptor in rat limbic regions following electroshock seizures

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 201-209

  Conti, Giuseppe ^b   Gale, Karen ^b   Kondratyev, Alexei ^a,b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electroconvulsive shock; Immunohistochemistry; Limbic seizures; Neuroprotection; NGF; TrkA

Indexed keywords

NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE A;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTRIC SHOCK; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SEIZURE; SUBSTANTIA INNOMINATA; THALAMUS; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOPROTECTION; DIENCEPHALON; ELECTROSHOCK; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR, TRKA; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TELENCEPHALON; TIME FACTORS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 68949100452     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2009.07.001     Document Type: Article

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