Hippocampal AMPA and NMDA mRNA levels correlate with aberrant fascia dentata mossy fiber sprouting in the pilocarpine model of spontaneous limbic epilepsy

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 734-753

  Mathern, Gary W ^a,b   Pretorius, James K ^a   Mendoza, Delia ^a   Lozada, Alana ^a   Kornblum, Harley I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Glutamate neurotransmission; Ionotropic receptors; Reactive synaptogenesis; Synaptic reorganization; Temporal lobe seizures

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; PILOCARPINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBICULUM; SYNAPTOGENESIS; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ANIMALS; EPILEPSY; MALE; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; MUSCARINIC AGONISTS; PILOCARPINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0032534699     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4547(19981215)54:6<734::AID-JNR2>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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