Selective facilitation of kindled seizures from the amygdala after hippocampal lesions induced by perforant path stimulation

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 224, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 165-168

  Mazarati, Andrey M ^a   Wasterlain, Claude G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Hippocampus; Kindling; Lesional epilepsy; Perforant path stimulation

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; KINDLING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERFORANT NERVE TRACT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEIZURES;

EID: 0030942056     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00164-X     Document Type: Article

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