Excitotoxic hippocampal neuron loss following sustained electrical stimulation of the perforant pathway in the mouse

Brain Research

Volumn 1085, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 195-198

  Kienzler, Friederike ^a   Jedlicka, Peter ^a   Vuksic, Mario ^a,b   Deller, Thomas ^a   Schwarzacher, Stephan W ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Dentate gyrus; Epilepsy; Epileptic brain damage; Hilus; Seizure

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL LESION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PERFORANT NERVE TRACT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EPILEPSY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONS; PERFORANT PATHWAY;

EID: 33646547561     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.02.055     Document Type: Article

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