Kainic acid-induced perirhinal cortical seizures in rats

Brain Research

Volumn 800, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 323-327

  Imamura, Shin ichi ^a   Tanaka, Shigeya ^b   Tojo, Hideshi ^b   Fukumoto, Shin ichiro ^a   Uetsuhara, Koichi ^b   Kuratsu, Jun ichi ^a   Takigawa, Morikuni ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kagoshima City Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Experimental epilepsy; Kainic acid; Perirhinal cortex; Secondary generalization; Sensorimotor cortex

Indexed keywords

KAINIC ACID;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN NECROSIS; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GLIOSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; KAINIC ACID; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; MOTOR CORTEX; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 0032479987     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)00513-7     Document Type: Article

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