Glial activation in a pilocarpine rat model for epileptogenesis: A morphometric and quantitative analysis

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 514, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 51-56

  Estrada, Felipe S ^a   Hernández, Vito S ^a   López Hernández, Estela ^a   Corona Morales, Aleph A ^c   Solís, Hugo ^a   Escobar, Alfonso ^b   Zhang, Limei ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSIDAD VERACRUZANA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; CD11b; GFAP; Microglia; Morphometric analysis

Indexed keywords

CD11B ANTIGEN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; PILOCARPINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MICROGLIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CYTOSKELETON; EPILEPSY; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NEURONS; PILOCARPINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 84862778651     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.02.055     Document Type: Article

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