Variability of sclerosis along the longitudinal hippocampal axis in epilepsy: A post mortem study

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 102, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 45-59

  Thom, Maria ^a,b   Liagkouras, Ioannis ^a,b   Martinian, Lillian ^a,b   Liu, Joan ^a   Catarino, Claudia B ^a,b,c   Sisodiya, Sanjay M ^a,b,c  

^a Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^c EPILEPSY SOCIETY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calbindin; Calretinin; Hippocampal sclerosis; Neuropeptide Y; Quantitation

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CALBINDIN; CALRETININ; NEUROPEPTIDE Y;

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CELL DENSITY; CELL LOSS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DENTATE HILUS; DISPERSION; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURON; MALE; NERVE CELL; NEUROANATOMY; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SYNAPSE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CA1 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEIN, VITAMIN D-DEPENDENT; CELL COUNT; COLORING AGENTS; DENTATE GYRUS; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNEURONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; OXAZINES; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; SCLEROSIS;

EID: 84868302114     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: 18726844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.04.015     Document Type: Article

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