Effects of lesions of the perirhinal cortex on amygdala kindling in rats

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 33-41

  Schwabe, Kerstin ^a   Ebert, Ulrich ^a   Löscher, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ibotenate; Piriform cortex; Seizures; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

EXCITOTOXIN; IBOTENIC ACID;

AFTERDISCHARGE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FEMALE; KINDLING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE THRESHOLD; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

AMYGDALA; ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IBOTENIC ACID; KINDLING (NEUROLOGY); MICROINJECTIONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0033833822     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-1211(00)00159-5     Document Type: Article

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