Hilar mossy cells of the dentate gyrus: A historical perspective

Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Volumn , Issue DEC, 2012, Pages

  Scharfman, Helen E ^a,b   Myers, Catherine E ^c,d  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Dentate gyrus; Excitotoxicity; Granule cell; Hippocampus; Interneuron; Mossy fibers; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.1; SOMATOSTATIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; BRAIN COMMISSURE; BRAIN SLICE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VIABILITY; DENDRITIC SPINE; DENTATE GYRUS; DENTATE HILUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EXCITOTOXICITY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL MOSSY FIBER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERNEURON; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUBCOMMISSURAL ORGAN; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

EID: 84871262845     PISSN: 16625110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2012.00106     Document Type: Review

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