Development of kindling and spontaneous seizures after massed stimulation of different loci in the rat piriform cortex

Brain Research

Volumn 855, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 252-259

  Potschka, Heidrun ^a   Schwabe, Kerstin ^a   Löscher, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Kindling; Status epilepticus; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; KINDLING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIFORM CORTEX; RAT; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEIZURES; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0034645950     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(99)02387-2     Document Type: Article

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