A new model of chronic temporal lobe epilepsy induced by electrical stimulation of the amygdala in rat

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 38, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 177-205

  Nissinen, Jari ^a   Halonen, Toivo ^a   Koivisto, Esa ^a   Pitkänen, Asla ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Animal model; Epileptogenesis; Seizure; Sprouting; Status epilepticus

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPILEPTIC STATE; EPILEPTOGENESIS; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROSHOCK; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STATUS EPILEPTICUS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 0033992158     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-1211(99)00088-1     Document Type: Article

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