Density, but not shape, of hippocampal dendritic spines varies after a seizure-inducing acute dose of monosodium glutamate in rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 363, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 22-24

  Gonzalez Burgos I ^a   Lopez Vazquez M A ^a   Beas Zarate C ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL SEGURO SOCIAL   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUADALAJARA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

CA1; Dendritic spines; Epilepsy; Hippocampus; Monosodium glutamate; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE SODIUM;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL SHAPE; CLONIC SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TONIC SEIZURE;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; DENDRITES; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEIZURES; SODIUM GLUTAMATE;

EID: 2442557126     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.03.035     Document Type: Article

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