Effects of Swimming Exercise on Limbic and Motor Cortex Neurogenesis in the Kainate-Lesion Model of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

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Effects of 30 d swimming exercise on neurons in area CA3 of hippocampus. (a) Photomicrograph of how healthy surviving neurons (solid-line arrow) were differentiated from necrotic neurons (dashed-line arrow) in a small area. (b) Series of photomicrographs showing the surviving neurons in groups of 4-month-old male Wistar rats exposed to the following conditions: normal control (NC), normal control followed by swimming exercise (NC+EX), sham-operated control followed by swimming exercise (SC+EX), and kainic acid-induced lesioning and seizures (LO) followed by immediate, 1 d postlesion exposure to swimming exercise (L+EX) treatments. Magnification 40x.

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