Organotypic hippocampal slice cultures as a model of limbic epileptogenesis

Neuromethods

Volumn 40, Issue , 2009, Pages 183-201

  Bausch, Suzanne B ^a  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrophysiology; Hippocampus; Kainic acid; Morphology; Mossy fiber; NMDA receptor; Seizures; Sprouting; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

CELL GRANULE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PH MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 67449162025     PISSN: 08932336     EISSN: 19406045     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-263-6_11     Document Type: Review

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