Epilepsy Research
Volume 32, Issue 1 , Pages 172-182 , 1 September 1998

Supragranular mossy fiber sprouting is not necessary for spontaneous seizures in the intrahippocampal kainate model of epilepsy in the rat

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Epilepsy Research
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