Hippocampal injury, atrophy, synaptic reorganization, and epileptogenesis after perforant pathway stimulation-induced status epilepticus in the mouse

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 515, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 181-196

  Kienzler, Friederike ^a,b   Norwood, Braxton A ^a   Sloviter, Robert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dentate gyrus; Epileptogenesis; Hippocampus; Mouse; Rat

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 2; AMINO ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; AMPA RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR IONOTROPIC, AMPA 2; KAINIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN DEGENERATION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EPILEPTIC STATE; EPILEPTOGENESIS; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MOSSY FIBER; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NERVE SPROUTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ATROPHY; C57BL MOUSE; CELL COUNT; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPILEPSY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURON; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERFORANT NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; SCLEROSIS; SYNAPSE; TISSUE FIXATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ATROPHY; CELL COUNT; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPILEPSY; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURONS; KAINIC ACID; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; PERFORANT PATHWAY; RECEPTORS, AMPA; SCLEROSIS; STATUS EPILEPTICUS; SYNAPSES; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 67650294279     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.22059     Document Type: Article

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