Increased responsiveness and failure of habituation in neurons of the external nucleus of inferior colliculus associated with audiogenic seizures of the genetically epilepsy-prone rat

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 280-286

  Chakravarty, D N ^a,b   Faingold, C L ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPILEPSY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE;

EID: 0030271375     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1996.0162     Document Type: Article

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