Dendritic shrinkage and dye-coupling between rat hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cells in the tetanus toxin model of epilepsy

Brain Research

Volumn 741, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 38-43

  Colling, Simon B ^a,b   Man, William D C ^a   Draguhn, Andreas ^c   Jefferys, John G R ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

biocytin; dendritic shrinkage; dye coupling; epilepsy; hippocampus; morphology; tetanus toxin

Indexed keywords

TETANUS TOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT;

ANIMALS; COLORING AGENTS; DENDRITES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LYSINE; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TETANUS TOXIN;

EID: 0030601976     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(96)00884-0     Document Type: Article

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