Stereological analysis of GluR2-immunoreactive hilar neurons in the pilocarpine model of temporal lobe epilepsy: Correlation of cell loss with mossy fiber sprouting

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 205, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 569-582

  Jiao, Yiqun ^a   Nadler, J Victor ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Axonal reorganization; Dentate gyrus; Epilepsy; Granule cell; Hippocampus; Mossy cell; Mossy fiber

Indexed keywords

PILOCARPINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL POPULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EPILEPTIC STATE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MOSSY FIBER; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE SPROUTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STEREOLOGY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; CELL COUNT; CELL SHAPE; DENTATE GYRUS; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; MUSCARINIC AGONISTS; NEURONS; PHENOBARBITAL; PILOCARPINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, AMPA; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 34248549590     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2007.03.025     Document Type: Article

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