Neurochemical and Behavioral Features in Genetic Absence Epilepsy and in Acutely Induced Absence Seizures

Table 2

Density of [³H] spiperone binding sites in different brain areas of ACI and WAG/Rij rats (D₂/D₃ receptors).

Brain regions	ACI rats	WAG/Rij rats	𝑃<0.05
Motor cortex	7.23±0.52	9.8±0.61	0.018
Somatosensory cortex	5.18±0.32	8.19±0.72	0.0052
Parietal cortex	6.41±0.40	8.40±0.78	0.0064
Nucleus accumbens (core)	16.15±0.70	14.94±1.25
Nucleus accumbens (shell)	22.79±0.54	21.79±1.22
Caudate nucleus (head)	25.89±1.13	21.64±0.47	0.0088
Caudate nucleus (ventral)	32.77±1.09	36.33±1.72
Caudate-putamen	30.15±2.77	27.87±2.46
CA3 area of hippocampus	2.80±0.15	1.85±0.30	0.024