Dentate gyrus network dysfunctions precede the symptomatic phase in a genetic mouse model of seizures

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue AUG, 2013, Pages

  Toader, Oana ^a,b,d   Forte, Nicola ^a   Orlando, Marta ^a   Ferrea, Enrico ^a,e   Raimondi, Andrea ^a,f   Baldelli, Pietro ^a,c   Benfenati, Fabio ^a,c   Medrihan, Lucian ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b INTERNATIONAL MAX PLANCK RESEARCH SCHOOL FOR NEUROSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^f SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dentate gyrus; Epilepsy; Excitatory inhibitory balance; Mossy cells; Synapsins

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; SODIUM CHANNEL; SYNAPSIN II;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPILEPTOGENESIS; GRANULE CELL; HOMOZYGOSITY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MICROELECTRODE; MOSSY FIBER; MOUSE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEIZURE; SYMPTOMATIC EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

EID: 84885052244     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2013.00138     Document Type: Article

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