Effects of repeated minimal electroshock seizures on NGF, BDNF and FGF-2 protein in the rat brain during postnatal development

International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 227-232

  Kim, Jinsook ^a   Gale, Karen ^a   Kondratyev, Alexei ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Electroconvulsive shock (ECS); Postnatal development; Seizures; Trophic factors

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RAT; SEIZURE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AGING; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTROSHOCK; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEIZURES;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 77951024816     PISSN: 07365748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdevneu.2010.02.003     Document Type: Article

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