Excitatory amino acid transporter 2 downregulation correlates with thalamic neuronal death following kainic acid-induced status epilepticus in rat

Neuropathology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-9

  Sakurai, Masashi ^a   Kurokawa, Haruna ^a   Shimada, Akinori ^b   Nakamura, Kazuhiro ^c   Miyata, Hajime ^c   Morita, Takehito ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN AND BLOOD VESSELS AKITA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Excitatory amino acid transporter 2; Neuronal death; Status epilepticus; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER 2; GLUTAMIC ACID; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; KAINIC ACID; PARAFFIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SLC1A2 PROTEIN, RAT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DOWN REGULATION; EPILEPTIC STATE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MICROGLIA; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPECTROMETER; THALAMUS; ANIMAL; CELL DEATH; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CELL DEATH; DOWN-REGULATION; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER 2; KAINIC ACID; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MICROGLIA; MIDLINE THALAMIC NUCLEI; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

EID: 84921022999     PISSN: 09196544     EISSN: 14401789     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/neup.12141     Document Type: Article

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