Hippocampal MRI and other structural biomarkers: Experimental approach to epileptogenesis

Biomarkers in Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 585-597

  Nehlig, Astrid ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

biomarker; epilepsy; epileptogenesis; magnetic resonance spectroscopy; metabolism; MRI; neuronal loss; plasticity

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CARBON 13; CHOLINE; CREATINE; CREATININE; GADOLINIUM; GLUTAMINE; KAINIC ACID; LITHIUM; MANGANESE; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; PHOSPHORUS 31; PILOCARPINE; PROTON;

ASTROCYTE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN REGION; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL LOSS; CELL METABOLISM; CELL TYPE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GLIOSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOSPHORUS NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PREDICTION; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PYRIFORM CORTEX; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; RODENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRACTOGRAPHY; WATER FLOW;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PILOCARPINE;

RODENTIA;

EID: 80054820695     PISSN: 17520363     EISSN: 17520371     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/bmm.11.65     Document Type: Review

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