Long-term enhancement of entorhinal-dentate evoked potentials following 'modified' ECS in the rat

Brain Research

Volumn 766, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 168-172

  Gombos, Zoltan ^a,b   Mendonça, Antonio ^a,b   Racine, Ronald J ^c   Cottrell, Georgia A ^a,b   Burnham, W McIntyre ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electroconvulsive shock; Electroconvulsive therapy; Evoked potential; Hippocampus; Modified electroconvulsive shock; Modified electroconvulsive shock seizure

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN METABOLISM; DENTATE GYRUS; DEPRESSION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EVOKED RESPONSE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; SPIKE WAVE;

ANIMALS; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SEIZURES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030964689     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)00555-6     Document Type: Article

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