Relations between cortical and thalamic cellular activities during absence seizures in rats

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1103-1112

  Seidenbecher, Thomas ^a   Staak, Rainer ^a   Pape, Hans Christian ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Absence epilepsy; Circuits; GAERS; Reticular rhythmogenesis; Spike and wave discharges; Thalamic nucleus; Thalamocortical

Indexed keywords

DROPERIDOL PLUS FENTANYL;

ABSENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; INTRAVENOUS ANESTHESIA; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; FEMALE; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; THALAMUS;

EID: 0031878517     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1998.00123.x     Document Type: Article

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