Functional anatomy of spontaneous seizures in a rat model of limbic epilepsy

Epilepsia

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 95-105

  Bertram, Edward H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal models; Epilepsy; Functional anatomy; Limbic seizures

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; LIMBIC CORTEX; NERVE CELL LESION; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEIZURES; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

EID: 0031033638     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1997.tb01083.x     Document Type: Article

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