Progressive brain damage, synaptic reorganization and NMDA activation in a model of epileptogenic cortical dysplasia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Colciaghi, Francesca ^a   Finardi, Adele ^a   Nobili, Paola ^a   Locatelli, Denise ^a   Spigolon, Giada ^b,c   Battaglia, Giorgio Stefano ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL DENSITY; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; DENDRITE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMBRYO; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SYNAPTOSOME;

ANIMALS; ATROPHY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALFORMATIONS OF CORTICAL DEVELOPMENT; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NEOCORTEX; PREGNANCY; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84896126937     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089898     Document Type: Article

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