Ultrastructural features of sprouted mossy fiber synapses in kindled and kainic acid-treated rats

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 458, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 272-292

  Cavazos, José E ^a,d   Zhang, Peisu ^b   Qazi, Romena ^b   Sutula, Thomas P ^b,c  

^a Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Dentate gyrus; Epilepsy; Granule cells; Hippocampus; Plasticity; Seizures

Indexed keywords

DYNORPHIN; KAINIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURON; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOSSY FIBER; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; EPILEPSY; GROWTH CONES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KAINIC ACID; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0037424670     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.10581     Document Type: Article

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