Prolonged febrile seizures in the immature rat model enhance hippocampal excitability long term

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 336-344

  Dube, Celine ^a,b,c   Chen, Kang ^a,b   Eghbal Ahmadi, Mariam ^a,b   Brunson, Kristen ^a,b   Soltesz, Ivan ^a   Baram, Tallie Z ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEBRILE CONVULSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY TEMPERATURE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEVER; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEIZURES, FEBRILE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034052613     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1531-8249(200003)47:3<336::AID-ANA9>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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