The neuropathology of hyperthermic seizures in the rat

Epilepsia

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 5-19

  Jiang, W ^a   Duong, T M ^a   De Lanerolle, N C ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Hippocampus; Neurodegeneration; Sprouting; Status epilepticus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEBRILE CONVULSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPERTHERMIA; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; THALAMUS; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; COLORING AGENTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEAT; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMMERSION; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEIZURES; SEIZURES, FEBRILE; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

EID: 0032922988     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1999.tb01982.x     Document Type: Article

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