Recurrent spontaneous motor seizures after repeated low-dose systemic treatment with kainate: Assessment of a rat model of temporal lobe epilepsy

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 73-84

  Hellier, Jennifer L ^a   Patrylo, Peter R ^a   Buckmaster, Paul S ^a   Dudek, F Edward ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal model; Convulsions; Epileptogenesis; Hippocampus; Kainic acid; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

KAINIC ACID; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; KAINIC ACID; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SEIZURES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031747177     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-1211(98)00017-5     Document Type: Article

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