Reduced hippocampal dentate cell proliferation and impaired spatial memory performance in aged-epileptic rats

Frontiers in Neurology

Volumn 4 JUL, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Cavarsan, Clarissa F ^a   Queiroz, Claudio M ^b   dos Santos, Jair Guilherme ^c   Xavier, Gilberto F ^d   Mello, Luiz Eugênio ^a   Covolan, Luciene ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

^c FACULDADE DE CIÊNCIAS MÉDICAS DA SANTA CASA DE SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aging; Epilepsy; Neurogenesis; Pilocarpine; Water maze

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; PILOCARPINE;

AGED; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN CELL; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LOSS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE DURATION; EPILEPTIC STATE; HIPPOCAMPAL DENTATE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING CURVE; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; RAT; REVIEW; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WATER MAZE TEST;

EID: 84883500061     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2013.00106     Document Type: Review

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