NMDAR2 upregulation precedes mossy fiber sprouting in kainate rat hippocampal epilepsy

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 255, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 25-28

  Mikuni, Nobuhiro ^a   Babb, Thomas L ^a   Chakravarty, Dipanjan N ^a   Hadam, Jennifer L ^a   Penrod, Carolyn E ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dentate gyrus; Granule cells; Kainic acid; NMDAR2; Reactive synaptogenesis; Sprouting

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DENDRITIC CELL; DENTATE GYRUS; EPILEPSY; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MOSSY FIBER; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE SPROUTING; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; REINNERVATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; KAINIC ACID; MALE; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; NERVE REGENERATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0032500858     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00704-6     Document Type: Article

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