Kainic acid-induced recurrent mossy fiber innervation of dentate gyrus inhibitory interneurons: Possible anatomical substrate of granule cell hyperinhibition in chronically epileptic rats

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 494, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 944-960

  Sloviter, Robert S ^a   Zappone, Colin A ^a   Harvey, Brian D ^a   Frotscher, Michael ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Basket cells; Epilepsy; Hippocampus; Mossy fiber sprouting; Status epilepticus; Synaptic reorganization

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; BICUCULLINE METHIODIDE; KAINIC ACID; PARVALBUMIN;

ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; DENDRITE; DENTATE GYRUS; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EPILEPTIC STATE; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURON; MOSSY FIBER; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BICUCULLINE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GABA ANTAGONISTS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURONS; KAINIC ACID; MALE; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

EID: 30344481350     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.20850     Document Type: Article

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