Seizure-induced changes in neuropeptide Y-containing cortical neurons: Potential role for seizure threshold and epileptogenesis

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 559-567

  Cardoso, Armando ^a   Freitas da Costa, Paulo ^a   Carvalho, Liliana S ^a   Lukoyanov, Nikolai V ^a  

^a Institute of Histology and Embryology   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Dentate gyrus; Electroconvulsive shock; Primary somatosensory barrel field cortex; Retrosplenial cortex; Status epilepticus; Stereology

Indexed keywords

DIAZEPAM; NEUROPEPTIDE Y;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CLONIC SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTRIC SHOCK; EPILEPTIC STATE; EPILEPTOGENESIS; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; MALE; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SEIZURE SUSCEPTIBILITY; SEIZURE THRESHOLD; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROSHOCK; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PENTYLENETETRAZOLE; PILOCARPINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEIZURES; SOMATOSTATIN;

EID: 78649963242     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2010.09.008     Document Type: Article

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