Brain injury-induced enhanced limbic epileptogenesis: Anatomical and physiological parallels to an animal model of temporal lobe epilepsy

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 81-91

  Coulter, D A ^a,b   Rafiq, A ^a   Shumate, M ^a   Gong, Q Z ^a   DeLorenzo, R J ^a,b   Lyeth, B G ^a  

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

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

mossy fiber sprouting; pilocarpine; traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

PILOCARPINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD INJURY; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MOSSY FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BRAIN INJURIES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HUMANS; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; LIMBIC SYSTEM; RATS;

EID: 0030550362     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-1211(96)00044-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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