Topological determinants of epileptogenesis in large-scale structural and functional models of the dentate gyrus derived from experimental data

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1566-1587

  Dyhrfjeld Johnsen, Jonas ^a   Santhakumar, Vijayalakshmi ^a   Morgan, Robert J ^a   Huerta, Ramon ^b   Tsimring, Lev ^b   Soltesz, Ivan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL COUNT; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TYPE; DENTATE GYRUS; EPILEPTIC NERVE CELL; EPILEPTOGENESIS; GRANULE CELL; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE GROWTH; NERVE SPROUTING; NEUROANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EPILEPSY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURONS; RATS; SCLEROSIS;

EID: 33846938488     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00950.2006     Document Type: Article

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