Thalamic mediodorsal and intralaminar nuclear lesions disrupt the generation of experimentally induced generalized absence-like seizures in rats

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 193-205

  Banerjee, Pradeep K ^a   Snead III, O Carter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Absence seizures; Cortex; Pentylenetetrazole; Spike and wave discharges; Thalamus; Hydroxybutyric acid

Indexed keywords

4 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; GAMMA BUTYROLACTONE; PENTETRAZOLE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; THALAMUS;

ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; MALE; PENTYLENETETRAZOLE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETICULAR FORMATION; SODIUM OXYBATE; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 0028346855     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0920-1211(94)90050-7     Document Type: Article

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