Remodeling dendritic spines in the rat pilocarpine model of temporal lobe epilepsy

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 258, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 73-76

  Isokawa, Masako ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Degeneration; Dendrite; Pilocarpine; Plasticity; Seizure; Spine

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; DENDRITE; EPILEPTOGENESIS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ANIMALS; CELL SIZE; DENDRITES; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; IONTOPHORESIS; LYSINE; MALE; PILOCARPINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEIZURES; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

EID: 0032545183     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00848-9     Document Type: Article

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