The pilocarpine model of epilepsy in mice

Epilepsia

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1015-1019

  Cavalheiro, E A ^a,b   Santos, N F ^a   Priel, M R ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Disciplina de Neurologia Experimental   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chronic epilepsy; Mice; Mossy fiber sprouting; Recurrent spontaneous seizures; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

PENTOBARBITAL; PILOCARPINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DRUG EFFECT; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; EPILEPTOGENESIS; HISTOLOGY; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MOUSE; NERVE SPROUTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0029790315     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1996.tb00541.x     Document Type: Article

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