Mossy cell axon synaptic contacts on ectopic granule cells that are born following pilocarpine-induced seizures

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 422, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 136-140

  Pierce, Joseph P ^a   Punsoni, Michael ^a   McCloskey, Daniel P ^b   Scharfman, Helen E ^b,c  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b HELEN HAYES HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

CGRP; Dentate gyrus; Neurogenesis; Pilocarpine; Status epilepticus; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CALBINDIN; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; PILOCARPINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CELL CONTACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPILEPTIC STATE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; INNERVATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NERVE ENDING; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEIN, VITAMIN D-DEPENDENT; CHORISTOMA; CONVULSANTS; DENDRITES; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PILOCARPINE; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STATUS EPILEPTICUS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 34447537785     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.06.016     Document Type: Article

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