Hippocampal cell loss in posttraumatic human epilepsy

Epilepsia

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1373-1382

  Swartz, Barbara E ^a,b,c,d   Houser, Carolyn R ^b,c,d   Tomiyasu, Uwami ^b   Walsh, Gregory O ^c,d   DeSalles, Antonio ^b,c,d   Rich, J Ronald ^c,d   Delgado Escueta, Antonio ^b,c,d  

^a Hoag Hospital Memorial Presbyterian Epilepsy Center   (United States)

^b VA GREATER LOS ANGELES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dentate gyrus; Hippocampal sclerosis; Temporal lobe epilepsy; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

CRESYL VIOLET; DYE; EOSIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HEMATOXYLIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPILEPSY; GLIOSIS; GRANULE CELL; HEAD INJURY; HEMOSIDEROSIS; HETEROTOPIA; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE SPROUTING; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; STAINING; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ATROPHY; CELL COUNT; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, POST-TRAUMATIC; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLIOSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOCORTEX; NEURONS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 33746871470     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2006.00602.x     Document Type: Article

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