Hippocampal volume and cell density changes in a mouse model of human genetic epilepsy

Neurology

Volumn 80, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 1240-1246

  Richards, Kay L ^a,b   Kurniawan, Nyoman D ^a   Yang, Zhengyi ^a   Kim, Tae Hwan ^b   Keller, Marianne D ^a   Low, Jun ^b   Ullmann, Jeremy F P ^a   Cole, Stacey ^a   Foong, Samuel ^a   Galloway, Graham J ^a   Reid, Christopher A ^b   Paxinos, George ^a,c   Reutens, David C ^a   Petrou, Steven ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE MEGLUMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN SIZE; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL GRANULE; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GAMMA AMINOBUTYRIC ACID TYPE A GENE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUTATION; NEURONS;

EID: 84876225984     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e31828970ec     Document Type: Article

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