Title : Nicotine Elicits Convulsive Seizures by Activating Amygdalar Neurons.

Pub. Date : 2017

PMID : 28232801






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1 Topographical analysis of Fos protein expression, a biological marker of neural excitation, revealed that a convulsive dose (4 mg/kg) of nicotine region-specifically activated neurons in the piriform cortex, amygdala, medial habenula, paratenial thalamus, anterior hypothalamus and solitary nucleus among 48 brain regions examined, and this was also suppressed by MEC. Nicotine Fos proto-oncogene, AP-1 transcription factor subunit Rattus norvegicus