Mossy fiber plasticity and enhanced hippocampal excitability, without hippocampal cell loss or altered neurogenesis, in an animal model of prolonged febrile seizures

Hippocampus

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 399-412

  Bender, Roland A ^a,b   Dubé, Celine ^a   Gonzalez Vega, Rebeca ^a   Mina, Erene W ^a   Baram, Tallie Z ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dentate gyrus; Development; Epilepsy; Epileptogenesis; Hippocampus; Interneurons

Indexed keywords

KAINIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CELL DENSITY; CELL LOSS; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FEBRILE CONVULSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MOSSY FIBER; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE SPROUTING; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL DEATH; CELL DIVISION; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; KAINIC ACID; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEIZURES, FEBRILE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0038405216     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.10089     Document Type: Review

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