Chronic epilepsy with damage restricted to the hippocampus: Possible mechanisms

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 255-265

  Wasterlain, Claude G ^a,b   Shirasaka, Yukiyoshi ^a,b   Mazarati, Andrey M ^a,b   Spigelman, Igor ^b,c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UCLA SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

epilepsy; GABA; hippocampus; inhibition; kindling; status epilepticus

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN INJURY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; HIPPOCAMPUS; KINDLING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEUROFIBRILS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GABA; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

EID: 0030557804     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-1211(96)00058-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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