Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity, Memory, and Epilepsy: Effects of Long-Term Valproic Acid Treatment

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 567-574

  Sgobio, Carmelo ^a   Ghiglieri, Veronica ^a   Costa, Cinzia ^d   Bagetta, Vincenza ^a   Siliquini, Sabrina ^d   Barone, Ilaria ^a   Di Filippo, Massimiliano ^d   Gardoni, Fabrizio ^b   Gundelfinger, Eckart D ^c   Di Luca, Monica ^b   Picconi, Barbara ^a   Calabresi, Paolo ^d  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antiepileptic drugs; dendrite branching; electrophysiology; epileptic seizures; hippocampal nonspatial learning; long term potentiation

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; SCAFFOLD PROTEIN; VALPROIC ACID;

AMNESIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL DENSITY; CELL STRUCTURE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DRUG POTENTIATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MODEL; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM CARE; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY DISORDER; MORTALITY; MOUSE; MUTANT; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THERAPY EFFECT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOPHYSICS; CALCIUM-CALMODULIN-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE TYPE 2; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EPILEPSY; FOOD PREFERENCES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMORY DISORDERS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VALPROIC ACID;

EID: 76849114494     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.11.008     Document Type: Article

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