Exacerbated status epilepticus and acute cell loss, but no changes in epileptogenesis, in mice with increased brain-derived neurotrophic factor signaling

Neuroscience

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1081-1092

  Lahteinen S ^a   Pitkanen A ^a   Koponen, E ^a   Saarelainen, T ^a   Castren E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cellular damage; Epilepsy; Hippocampus; Neurogenesis; Plasticity; trkB

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CELL MARKER; KAINIC ACID; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL MATURATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPILEPTIC STATE; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FEMALE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MOSSY FIBER; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NERVE SPROUTING; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAINING; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WILD TYPE;

EID: 0344441260     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2003.08.037     Document Type: Article

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