Mossy fiber sprouting in the dentate gyrus in a newly developed epileptic mutant, Ihara epileptic rat

Brain Research

Volumn 834, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 214-218

  Amano, Shigeru ^a   Ikeda, Masaru ^a   Uemura, Shuji ^b   Fukuoka, Junya ^a   Tsuji, Atsushi ^a   Sasahara, Masakiyo ^a   Hayase, Yoneko ^a   Hazama, Fumitada ^a  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b Inst Molec Neurbio   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Ihara epileptic rat; Limbic like seizure; Mossy fiber sprouting; Neuronal plasticity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPILEPSY; GENE MUTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MOSSY FIBER; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE SPROUTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; STAINING;

ANIMALS; DENTATE GYRUS; EPILEPSY; MALE; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; REFERENCE VALUES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033542755     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(99)01505-X     Document Type: Article

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