Hippocampal cell loss and propagation of abnormal discharges accompanied with the expression of tonic convulsion in the spontaneously epileptic rat

Brain Research

Volumn 1328, Issue , 2010, Pages 171-180

  Hanaya, Ryosuke ^a   Sasa, Masashi ^b   Sugata, Sei ^a   Tokudome, Mai ^a   Serikawa, Tadao ^c   Kurisu, Kaoru ^d   Arita, Kazunori ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Nagisa Hospital   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF); Hippocampal cell loss; Hippocampal sclerosis; Spontaneous epileptic rat (SER); Sprouting of mossy fiber

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; PROTEIN BAX;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CELL LOSS; EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPROUTING; TONIC SEIZURE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CA1 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; CA3 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; CELL DEATH; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURONS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RATS, WISTAR; SCLEROSIS; SEIZURES;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 77950593810     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.02.086     Document Type: Article

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