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BRAIN RESEARCH REVIEWS
Volume 48, Issue 1, Pages 43-56Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresrev.2004.08.003
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hippocarnpus; dentate gyros; granule cell layer; adult neurogenesis; epilepsy; basal dendrites
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- NINDS NIH HHS [T-32-NS-45540, NS-38331] Funding Source: Medline
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The granule cells of the dentate gyrus are a population of neurons continously generated throughout life. In the rat, the morphological development of newly born granule cells generated in the adult share many similarities with granule cells generated during development. These include a specific migration pattern, orientation and progression of neurite outgrowth. It appears as though varied dendritic morphology occurs depending on the position of the granule cells within the granule cell layer. A hypothesis for granule cell migration and differentiation of their dendritic processes is proposed based on normal and epileptic rats. In this hypothesis, the granule cells are generated in the subgranular zone, and then they migrate into the granule cell layer. During this migration, the sequence of neurite outgrowth is described, where the newly born granule cell first sprouts rudimentary processes. One of these processes, the basal dendrite, is transiently present on developing rodent granule cells in rats. However, in seizure-induced rats the basal dendrite often fails to retract, which leads to the formation of hilar basal dendrites, and also perhaps, ectopic granule cells in the hilus. In this review, granule cell development is discussed with relevance to the creation of the recurrent excitatory circuitry in rodent models of temporal lobe epilepsy. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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