Repeated brief seizures induce progressive hippocampal neuron loss and memory deficits

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 135, Issue , 2002, Pages 95-110

  Kotloski, Robert ^a   Lynch, Michael ^a   Lauersdorf, Suzanne ^a   Sutula, Thomas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN REGION; CELL DENSITY; CELL LOSS; CELL POPULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; STEREOLOGY;

EID: 0036458341     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(02)35010-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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