Chronic lithium treatment inhibits pilocarpine-induced mossy fiber sprouting in rat hippocampus

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1448-1453

  Cadotte, David W ^a   Xu, Bin ^a   Racine, Ronald J ^a   MacQueen, Glenda M ^a   Jun, Feng Wang ^b   McEwen, Bruce ^c   Young, L Trevor ^b,d  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bipolar disorder; Hippocampus; Lithium; Mossy fiber sprouting; Neuroprotection; Pilocarpine

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM; PILOCARPINE;

ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CELL DENSITY; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN VIVO STUDY; MOSSY FIBER; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE SPROUTING; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; STAINING; STEREOMETRY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ANIMAL; CELL COUNT; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; PHYSIOLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; LITHIUM; MALE; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; PILOCARPINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0042887007     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.npp.1300189     Document Type: Article

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