Blockade of neuronal activity during hippocampal development produces a chronic focal epilepsy in the rat

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 2904-2916

  Galvan, Cynthia D ^a   Hrachovy, Richard A ^a,b   Smith, Karen L ^a   Swann, John W ^a,c  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MICHAEL E DEBAKEY VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Cain Foundation Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

Axons; EEG; Epilepsy; Hippocampus; Pyramidal cells; TTX

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14; DEOXYGLUCOSE; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN VITRO STUDY; NERVE FIBER; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SPIKE WAVE; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL;

EID: 0034656110     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.20-08-02904.2000     Document Type: Article

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