Consequences of recurrent seizures during early brain development

Neuroscience

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1443-1454

  Liu, Z ^a   Yang, Y ^a   Silveira, D C ^b   Sarkisian, M R ^a   Tandon, P ^a   Huang, L T ^a   Stafstrom, C E ^b   Holmes, G L ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

C fos; Development; Flurothyl; Hippocampus; Mossy fiber sprouting; Recurrent seizures

Indexed keywords

FLUROTHYL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPTIC STATE; MALE; MOSSY FIBER; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE CELL LESION; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SEIZURE; STAINING; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; COLORING AGENTS; CONVULSANTS; DENTATE GYRUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; NERVE DEGENERATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECURRENCE; SEIZURES;

EID: 0033048296     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(99)00064-0     Document Type: Article

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