Kainic acid-induced mossy fiber sprouting and synapse formation in the dentate gyrus of rats

Hippocampus

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 244-260

  Wenzel, H J ^a   Woolley, C S ^a,c   Robbins, C A ^a   Schwartzkroin, P A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biocytin; Electron microscopy; Epilepsy; Synaptic reorganization

Indexed keywords

BIOCYTIN; KAINIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOSSY FIBER; NERVE GROWTH; NERVE SPROUTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; STAINING; SYNAPSE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ANIMALS; AXONS; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; KAINIC ACID; LYSINE; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEIZURES; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0033935375     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1098-1063(2000)10:3<244::AID-HIPO5>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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