The midline thalamus: Alterations and a potential role in limbic epilepsy

Epilepsia

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 967-978

  Bertram, Edward H ^a   Mangan, Patrick S ^a   Zhang, Dexing ^a   Scott, Carol A ^a   Williamson, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Hippocampus; Kindling; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE;

AFTERDISCHARGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL LOSS; CELL POPULATION; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE NUCLEUS; EXCITABILITY; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; KINDLING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; SYNAPSE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; THALAMUS;

ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; LIDOCAINE; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; THALAMIC NUCLEI; THALAMUS;

EID: 0034871318     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1528-1157.2001.042008967.x     Document Type: Article

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