Loss of synapses in the entorhinal-dentate gyrus pathway following repeated induction of electroshock seizures in the rat

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 71-83

  Cardoso, Armando ^a   Assunção, Marco ^a   Andrade, José P ^a   Pereira, Pedro A ^a   Madeira, M Dulce ^a   Paula Barbosa, Manuel M ^a   Lukoyanov, Nikolai V ^a,b  

^a Porto School of Nursing   (Portugal)

^b Porto Medical School   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Electroshock; Granule cells; Hippocampal formation; Stereology; Synaptic reorganization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; ELECTRIC SHOCK; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; GOLGI COMPLEX; GRANULE CELL; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTROSHOCK; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEIZURES; SILVER STAINING; SYNAPSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 38049069413     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: 10974547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.21474     Document Type: Article

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