A chronic focal epilepsy with mossy fiber sprouting follows recurrent seizures induced by intrahippocampal tetanus toxin injection in infant rats

Neuroscience

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 73-82

  Anderson, A E ^a   Hrachovy, R A ^a   Antalffy, B A ^a   Armstrong, D L ^a   Swann, J W ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Hippocampus; Infancy; Mossy fibers; Seizures; Tetanus toxin

Indexed keywords

TETANUS TOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MOSSY FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECURRENT DISEASE;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLORING AGENTS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; INJECTIONS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECURRENCE; TELEVISION; TETANUS TOXIN;

EID: 0032999629     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(98)00746-5     Document Type: Article

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