Anticonvulsant effect of anterior thalamic high frequency electrical stimulation in the rat

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 89-100

  Mirski, Marek A ^a,b   Rossell, Lisa Ann ^a   Terry, John B ^b   Fisher, Robert S ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior thalamus; Electrical stimulation; Epilepsy; Limbic seizures; Pentylenetetrazol

Indexed keywords

PENTETRAZOLE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE THRESHOLD; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; CONVULSANTS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; MALE; PENTYLENETETRAZOLE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 0030786581     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-1211(97)00034-X     Document Type: Article

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