Hippocampal granule cell activity and c-Fos expression during spontaneous seizures in awake, chronically epileptic, pilocarpine-treated rats: Implications for hippocampal epileptogenesis

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 488, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 442-463

  Harvey, Brian D ^b   Sloviter, Robert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

c Fos; Dentate gyrus; Epilepsy; Hippocampus; Status epilepticus

Indexed keywords

PILOCARPINE; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EPILEPTIC STATE; EPILEPTOGENESIS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MOSSY FIBER; NERVE INJURY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SEIZURE, EPILEPSY AND CONVULSION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PILOCARPINE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEIZURES; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

EID: 21644443575     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.20594     Document Type: Article

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