Actions of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in slices from rats with spontaneous seizures and mossy fiber sprouting in the dentate gyrus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 5619-5631

  Scharfman, Helen E ^a,b   Goodman, Jeffrey H ^a   Sollas, Anne L ^a  

^a HELEN HAYES HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Glutamate; Growth factor; Hippocampus; Neurotrophin; Tyrosine kinase

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; EPILEPSY; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GRANULE CELL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERNEURON; MOSSY FIBER; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE SPROUTING; NONHUMAN; PERFORANT NERVE TRACT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; SEIZURE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0033168304     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-13-05619.1999     Document Type: Article

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