| Literature DB >> 3120197 |
D I Barry1, I Kikvadze, P Brundin, T G Bolwig, A Björklund, O Lindvall.
Abstract
Norepinephrine-rich cell suspensions, prepared from the locus coeruleus region of rat fetuses, were grafted bilaterally into the hippocampus of rats made hypersensitive to hippocampal kindling by a neurotoxic lesion of the central catecholamine system. The animals with grafts showed a marked suppression of the onset and progression of kindling-induced epilepsy, and this effect was correlated with the degree of graft-derived noradrenergic innervation of the host hippocampal formation. We conclude that grafted neurons can modulate the excitability of epileptic brain regions.Entities:
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Year: 1987 PMID: 3120197 PMCID: PMC299616 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.84.23.8712
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ISSN: 0027-8424 Impact factor: 11.205