Altered neurotransmitter release, vesicle recycling and presynaptic structure in the pilocarpine model of temporal lobe epilepsy

Brain

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 869-885

  Upreti, Chirag ^a   Otero, Rafael ^b   Partida, Carlos ^b   Skinner, Frank ^b   Thakker, Ravi ^b   Pacheco, Luis F ^b   Zhou, Zhen Yu ^a   Maglakelidze, Giorgi ^a   Velíšková, Jana ^a   Velíšek, Libor ^a   Romanovicz, Dwight ^c   Jones, Theresa ^c   Stanton, Patric K ^a   Garrido Sanabria, Emilio R ^b  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT BROWNSVILLE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

epilepsy; hippocampus; mossy fibre terminals; neurotransmitter release; synaptic vesicle recycling

Indexed keywords

NEUROTRANSMITTER; PILOCARPINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCYTOSIS; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPAL MOSSY FIBER; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SYNAPSE VESICLE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84863232836     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awr341     Document Type: Article

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