Modeling the dentate gyrus

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 163, Issue , 2007, Pages 639-658

  Morgan, Robert J ^a   Santhakumar, Vijayalakshmi ^b   Soltesz, Ivan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

computational model; epilepsy; granule cell; interneuron; mossy cell; sclerosis

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE;

BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL TYPE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COMPARTMENT MODEL; DENDRITIC CELL; DENTATE GYRUS; EPILEPTOGENESIS; GRANULE CELL; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYNAPSE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANIMALS; DENTATE GYRUS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS;

EID: 34548217703     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(07)63035-0     Document Type: Review

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