Audiogenic kindling increases neuronal responses to acoustic stimuli in neurons of the medial geniculate body of the genetically epilepsy-prone rat

Brain Research

Volumn 761, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 217-224

  N'Gouemo, Prosper ^a   Faingold, Carl L ^a  

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

Author keywords

Audiogenic seizure; GEPR 9s; Habituation; Medial geniculate body; Neuronal firing; Post tonic clonus

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CLONUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HISTOGRAM; MEDIAL GENICULATE BODY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GENICULATE BODIES; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; MALE; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 0030787017     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)00322-3     Document Type: Article

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