Cognitive functions after pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus: Changes during silent period precede appearance of spontaneous recurrent seizures

Epilepsia

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1177-1183

  Hort, Jakub ^a   Broźek, Gustav ^a,b   Mareš, Pavel ^a   Langmeier, Miloš ^a   Komárek, Vladimír ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Cognitive functions; Ketamine; Pilocarpine; Rats; Status epilepticus

Indexed keywords

CLONAZEPAM; KETAMINE; PILOCARPINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL LOSS; CELL STRUCTURE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPTIC STATE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CLONAZEPAM; COGNITION; HIPPOCAMPUS; KETAMINE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; PILOCARPINE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

EID: 0032880365     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1999.tb00845.x     Document Type: Article

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