. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 1.

Published in final edited form as: Hippocampus. 2010 Jan;20(1):113–124. doi: 10.1002/hipo.20589

TABLE 2.

Amygdala Kindling

	24 h Control (N = 7)	24 h Post-kindling (N = 7)	1 Month control (N = 8)	1 Month post-kindling (N = 7)
MFB Density (MFB per 100 μm)	0.65 ± 0.07	0.80 ± 0.06	0.70 ± 0.05	0.71 ± 0.04
MFB with satellites (%)	7.76 ± 2.04 (13 of 154)^a	10.31 ± 2.42 (21 of 196)^a	5.63 ± 2.45 (10 of 193)^a	10.25 ± 2.16 (14 of 193)^a
MFB area (μm²)	7.72 ± 0.71	11.46 ± 1.08^*	9.33 ± 0.60	9.47 ± 0.77
Filopodia No. per MFB	1.11 ± 0.19	1.79 ± 0.23^*	1.61 ± 0.17	1.79 ± 0.18
Average filopodia length	1.85 ± 0.17	2.59 ± 0.19^*	2.23 ± 0.18	2.30 ± 0.18

Morphological measures from control mice and age-matched kindled mice examined 24 h and 1 month after the last evoked seizure. Values are means ± standard error. Significant values are in bold.

MFB, giant mossy fiber bouton.

P < 0.05 (t-test).

number of giant boutons with satellites relative to the total number of boutons examined. Note that percentages calculated from these numbers will differ slightly from percentages calculated from animal means.