Comparative fos immunoreactivity in the brain after forebrain, brainstem, or combined seizures induced by electroshock, pentylenetetrazol, focally induced and audiogenic seizures in rats

• Published in: Neuroscience Vol. 123; no. 1; pp. 279 - 292
• Main Authors: Eells, J.B, Clough, R.W, Browning, R.A, Jobe, P.C
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 2004; Elsevier
• Subjects: Animals; Biological and medical sciences; Brain Stem - metabolism; Electroshock - methods; epilepsy; Epilepsy, Reflex - chemically induced; Epilepsy, Reflex - metabolism; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Headache. Facial pains. Syncopes. Epilepsia. Intracranial hypertension. Brain oedema. Cerebral palsy; immediate early gene; Immunohistochemistry; Medical sciences; Nervous system (semeiology, syndromes); Neurology; Pentylenetetrazole; Prosencephalon - metabolism; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fos - metabolism; Rats; Rats, Sprague-Dawley; seizure models; Seizures - chemically induced; Seizures - metabolism; Vertebrates: nervous system and sense organs; epilepsy; PBS-Tx-Az; PP; GEPR; FI; R/B; seizure models; DCIC; SPF; SC; SG; PTZ; ECIC; immediate early gene; CnF; rats; PBS; Rt; CG; DAB; STh; F&F; S.D; AGS; VMH; AT; LPBS; LC; MES; SNpr; PL; FND; GiA; Nervous system diseases; Pentetrazol; Rat; Brain stem; Rodentia; Central nervous system; Epilepsy provoked by; Cerebral disorder; Audiogenic epilepsy; Prosencephalon; Vertebrata; Mammalia; Animal; Central nervous system disease; Models; Immediate early gene

To help discern sites of focal activation during seizures of different phenotype, the numbers of Fos immunoreactive (FI) neurons in specific brain regions were analyzed following “brainstem-evoked,” “forebrain-evoked” and forebrain/brainstem combination seizures induced by a variety of methods. Firs...