New insights into the role of hilar ectopic granule cells in the dentate gyrus based on quantitative anatomic analysis and three-dimensional reconstruction

Epilepsia

Volumn 53, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2012, Pages 109-115

  Scharfman, Helen E ^a,b   Pierce, Joseph P ^c  

^a NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epileptogenesis; Granule cell; Hub cell; Migration; Mossy fiber; Postnatal neurogenesis; Sprouting

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GRANULE CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INFANTILE SPASM; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE ENDING; NEUROANATOMY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN HYPOXIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEIZURE; SPONTANEOUS RECURRENT SEIZURE; SYNAPSE; SYNAPSE VESICLE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; DENTATE GYRUS; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; HYPOXIA, BRAIN; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; MUSCARINIC AGONISTS; NEUROPEPTIDES; PILOCARPINE; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; SEIZURES; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84861391430     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2012.03480.x     Document Type: Article

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