Hilar somatostatin-mRNA containing neurons are preserved after perforant path kindling in the rat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 255, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 45-48

  Dalby, Nils Ole ^a   West, Mark ^a   Finsen, Bente ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Hilus; Kindling; Neuronal loss; Somatostatin; Stereology

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; SOMATOSTATIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; KINDLING; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LUNG HILUS; MOSSY FIBER; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE SPROUTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STEREOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; DENTATE GYRUS; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; MALE; NEURONS; PERFORANT PATHWAY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFERENCE VALUES; RNA, MESSENGER; SEIZURES; SOMATOSTATIN;

EID: 0032500712     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00707-1     Document Type: Article

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