Repeated low-dose treatment of rats with pilocarpine: Low mortality but high proportion of rats developing epilepsy

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 111-119

  Glien, Maike ^a   Brandt, Claudia ^a   Potschka, Heidrun ^a   Voigt, Henning ^a   Ebert, Ulrich ^a   Löscher, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epileptogenesis; Lithium; Seizures; Status epilepticus

Indexed keywords

CONVULSANT AGENT; DIAZEPAM; LITHIUM; METHYLSCOPOLAMINE; PILOCARPINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG POTENTIATION; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; LATENT PERIOD; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECURRENT DISEASE; RESPONSE TIME; SEIZURE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG SYNERGISM; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; LITHIUM; MUSCARINIC AGONISTS; PILOCARPINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

EID: 0034900665     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-1211(01)00272-8     Document Type: Article

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