Spine loss and other persistent alterations of hippocampal pyramidal cell dendrites in a model of early-onset epilepsy

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 8356-8368

  Jiang, Minghui ^a   Lee, Chong L ^a   Smith, Karen L ^a   Swann, John W ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Axons; Dendrites; Dendritic spines; Hippocampus; Seizures; Synapses

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAFFERENTATION; DENDRITIC SPINE; EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SEIZURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0032531787     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-20-08356.1998     Document Type: Article

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