Experimental partial epileptogenesis

Current Opinion in Neurology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 203-209

  Bausch, Suzanne B ^a   McNamara, James O ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CHROMOSOME 20Q; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; GENE MUTATION; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MOSSY FIBER; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, COMPLEX PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, FRONTAL LOBE; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NEURAL INHIBITION; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0032932444     PISSN: 13507540     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019052-199904000-00012     Document Type: Review

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