Plasticity of granule cell-mossy fiber system following kainic acid induced seizures: An immunocytochemical study on neurofilament proteins

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 57-64

  Yang, Qiner ^a   Wang, Shu ^a   Hamberger, Anders ^a   Haglid, Kenneth G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Immunoreactivity; Mossy fiber sprouting; Phosphorylation; Rat

Indexed keywords

KAINIC ACID; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; DENTATE GYRUS; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MOSSY FIBER; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER; NERVE SPROUTING; NEUROFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

EID: 0030245580     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-0102(96)01077-2     Document Type: Article

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