Epilepsy Research
Volume 23, Issue 3 , Pages 225-233 , April 1996

Effects of chronic morphine pretreatment on amygdaloid kindling development, postictal seizure and suppression and benzodiazepine receptor binding in rats

  • L. Rocha

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Instituto Mexicano de Psiquiatría, Division de Neurociencias, Av. México-Xochimilco 101, C.P. 14370, México D.F.
    • Instituto Mexicano de Psiquiatría, Mexico City, Mexico
    • ,
  • R.F. Ackermann

      Affiliations

    • Brain Research Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Department of Neurology, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • ,
  • J. Engel Jr.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA

Received 11 January 1995 ,Accepted 6 July 1995.

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