Cortical somatosensory evoked potentials of seizure-sensitive and seizure-resistant gerbils

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 40, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 129-139

  Kato, Miyuki ^a   Ito, Muneyuki ^a   Seto Ohshima, Akiko ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b Inst Phys C   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Mongolian gerbil; Spontaneous seizures

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; DENTATE GYRUS; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; GERBIL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPREADING CORTICAL DEPRESSION;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; GERBILLINAE; SEIZURES; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 0034088559     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-1211(00)00116-9     Document Type: Article

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