Highly specific neuron loss preserves lateral inhibitory circuits in the dentate gyrus of kainate-induced epileptic rats

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 9519-9529

  Buckmaster, Paul S ^a   Jongen Rêlo, Ana L ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dentate gyrus; Epilepsy; GABA; GAD; Hippocampus; Inhibition; Interneurons; Somatostatin

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; KAINIC ACID; SOMATOSTATIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; EPILEPTOGENESIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTERNEURON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

EID: 0033232724     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-21-09519.1999     Document Type: Article

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