Cyto-, axo- and dendro-architectonic changes of neurons in the limbic system in the mouse pilocarpine model of temporal lobe epilepsy

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 43-51

  Tang, Feng Ru ^a   Loke, Weng Keong ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b DSO NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Epileptogenesis; Structural changes; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CALBINDIN; CALRETININ; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 1; GLUTAMIC ACID; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; PARVALBUMIN; PILOCARPINE; SOMATOSTATIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CELL LOSS; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DENDRITE; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE MODEL; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPILEPTIC STATE; EPILEPTOGENESIS; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GLIOSIS; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INTERNEURON; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MOSSY FIBER; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE SPROUTING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; PYRIFORM CORTEX; SUBICULUM; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ANIMALS; CELL SHAPE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MICE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PILOCARPINE;

EID: 77950518667     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2009.10.015     Document Type: Article

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