Regionally localized recurrent excitation in the dentate gyrus of a cortical contusion

1 model of posttraumatic epilepsy 2 3 Robert F. Hunt, Stephen W. Scheff 3, , Bret N. Smith 2 4 Department of Physiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536-0298, USA 5 Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 6 40536-0298, USA 7 Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536-0298, 8 USA 9 Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 10 40536-0298, USA 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Contact information: 27 Bret N. Smith, PhD 28 Department of Physiology 29 800 Rose St 30 MS-508 Chandler Medical Center 31 University of Kentucky 32 Lexington, KY 40536-0298, USA 33 Phone: (859) 323-4840 34 Fax: (859) 323-1070 35 36 Running title: Recurrent excitation in the dentate gyrus after head injury. 37 38