Delayed development of spontaneous seizures and prolonged convulsive state in rats after massed stimulation of the anterior piriform cortex

Brain Research

Volumn 754, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 227-238

  Timofeeva, Olga A ^a   Peterson, Gary M ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

chronic epilepsy; dominant focus; kindling; mossy fiber sprouting; prolonged postictal convulsive state; spontaneous seizure

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; KINDLING; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE SPROUTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIFORM CORTEX; RAT; SEIZURE;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; LIMBIC SYSTEM; NERVE FIBERS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEIZURES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030894155     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)00071-1     Document Type: Article

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