Epilepsy Research
Volume 32, Issue 3 , Pages 335-344 , November 1998

Synaptophysin immunohistochemistry densitometry measurement in resected human hippocampus: implication for the etiology of hippocampal sclerosis

  • Keith G Davies

      Affiliations

    • Epi-Care Center, Baptist Memorial Hospital, 930 Madison Avenue, Suite 700, Memphis, TN 38103, USA
    • Semmes-Murphey Clinic, Memphis, TN, USA
    • Department of Neurosurgery, University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 901 5222660; fax: +1 901 5222665; e-mail kgdavies@pol.net
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  • John B Schweitzer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN, USA
    • Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN, USA
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  • Mark R Looney

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN, USA
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  • Andrew J Bush

      Affiliations

    • Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN, USA
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  • F.Curtis Dohan Jr.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN, USA
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  • Bruce P Hermann

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

Received 22 December 1997 ,Revised 13 March 1998 ,Accepted 17 March 1998.

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