Abnormal responses to perforant path stimulation in the dentate gyrus of slices from rats with kainate-induced epilepsy and mossy fiber reorganization

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 31-42

  Patrylo, Peter R ^a,b   Schweitzer, Jeffrey S ^a   Dudek, F Edward ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Kainic acid; Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy; Mossy fiber reorganization; Negative field potential shifts; Perforant path stimulation

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BICUCULLINE; KAINIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MOSSY FIBER; NONHUMAN; PERFORANT NERVE TRACT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPIKE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BICUCULLINE; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPILEPSY; GABA ANTAGONISTS; KAINIC ACID; MALE; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PERFORANT PATHWAY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 0032815434     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-1211(99)00022-4     Document Type: Article

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