Mossy fiber sprouting induced by repeated electroconvulsive shock seizures

Brain Research

Volumn 844, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 28-33

  Gombos, Zoltan ^a,b   Spiller, Allison ^c   Cottrell, Georgia A ^a,b   Racine, Ronald J ^c   McIntyre Burnham, W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

ECS; ECT; Electroconvulsive shock seizure; Electroconvulsive therapy; Hippocampus; MES; Mossy fiber sprouting; Timm stain

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MOSSY FIBER; NERVE SPROUTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; STAINING;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; DENSITOMETRY; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; MALE; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 0032853184     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(99)01924-1     Document Type: Article

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