Anticonvulsant drug effects on spontaneous thalamocortical rhythms in vitro: Ethosuximide, trimethadione, and dimethadione

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 15-36

  Zhang, Yun Fu ^a   Gibbs III, John W ^a   Coulter, Douglas A ^a,b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortex; Generalized absence epilepsy; Generalized tonic clonic seizure; Seizure; Spike way discharge; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

2,2,3 TRIMETHYLSUCCINIMIDE; DIMETHADIONE; ETHOSUXIMIDE; SUCCINIMIDE; TRIMETHADIONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT;

EID: 0029918872     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0920-1211(95)00079-8     Document Type: Article

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