Epilepsy Research
Volume 26, Issue 1 , Pages 245-254 , December 1996

Comparison of seizure related amino acid release in human epileptic hippocampus versus a chronic, kainate rat model of hippocampal epilepsy

  • Charles L. Wilson

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    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 (310) 825 0576; fax: +1 (310) 206 8461.
    • Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
    • Brain Research Institute, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
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  • Nigel T. Maidment

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
    • Brain Research Institute, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
    • ,
  • Marc H. Shomer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
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  • Eric J. Behnke

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    • Brain Research Institute, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
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  • Larry Ackerson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
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  • Itzhak Fried

      Affiliations

    • Division of Neurological Surgery, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
    • Brain Research Institute, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
    • ,
  • Jerome Engel Jr.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
    • Department of Neurobiology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
    • Brain Research Institute, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA

Received 29 October 1995 ,Accepted 31 October 1995.

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