The effects of a single neonatally induced convulsion on spatial navigation, locomotor activity and convulsion susceptibility in the adult rat

Brain Research

Volumn 706, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 155-159

  Kornelsen, Rick A ^a   Boon, Francis ^a   Leung, L Stan ^a   Cain, D Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Activity; Convulsion susceptibility; Hyperthermia; Infant convulsion; Locomotor; Morris water maze; Pentylenetetrazol

Indexed keywords

PENTETRAZOLE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPERTHERMIA; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0030065621     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(95)01245-1     Document Type: Article

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