Hilar mossy cell circuitry controlling dentate granule cell excitability

Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Volumn , Issue JAN, 2013, Pages

  Jinde, Seiichiro ^a   Zsiros, Veronika ^b   Nakazawa, Kazu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Epileptogenesis; Excitability; Granule cells; Hippocampal mossy fibers; Lateral inhibition; Mossy cells; Pattern separation; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

BRAIN NERVE CELL; DENTATE GYRUS; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EPILEPTIC STATE; EPILEPTOGENESIS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; GRANULE CELL; HILAR MOSSY CELL; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HUMAN; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INTERNEURON; INTRALAMELLAR RECURRENT INHIBITION; LEARNING; MEMORY; MOSSY FIBER; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE SPROUTING; NONHUMAN; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; REVIEW; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TRANSLAMELLAR LATERAL INHIBITION;

EID: 84873119900     PISSN: 16625110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2013.00014     Document Type: Review

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