Cellular neuropathology of absence epilepsy in the neocortex: A population of glial cells rather than neurons is impaired in genetic rat model

Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 263-268

  Sitnikova, Evgenia ^a   Kulikova, Sofia ^a   Birioukova, Lidia ^a   Raevsky, Vladimir V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGHER NERVOUS ACTIVITY AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Absence epilepsy; Glia neuron index; Glial cells; Neocortex; Somatosensory cortex; WAG Rij rats

Indexed keywords

ABSENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; GLIA; METHODOLOGY; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; NEOCORTEX; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 79960083962     PISSN: 00651400     EISSN: 16890035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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