Development of a novel rat mutant with spontaneous limbic-like seizures

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 329-336

  Amano, Shigeru ^a   Ihara, Nobuo ^b   Uemura, Shuji ^a   Yokoyama, Masao ^a   Ikeda, Masaru ^a   Serikawa, Tadao ^c   Sasahara, Masakiyo ^a   Kataoka, Hideo ^a   Hayase, Yoneko ^a   Hazama, Fumitada ^a  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b Institute of ICR Research   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOSIS; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FEMALE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MOSSY FIBER; MUTANT; MYOCLONUS; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; REARING; SPIKE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

AGING; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; SEIZURES;

EID: 8944224016     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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