Rapamycin suppresses mossy fiber sprouting but not seizure frequency in a mouse model of temporal lobe epilepsy

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2337-2347

  Buckmaster, Paul S ^a   Lew, Felicia H ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAPAMYCIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE COURSE; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; GRANULE CELL; MALE; MOSSY FIBER; MOUSE; NERVE SPROUTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; DIAZEPAM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MICE; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; NEURONS; SEIZURES; SIROLIMUS; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 79951531485     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4852-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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