Vagal and sciatic nerve stimulation have complex, time-dependent effects on chemically-induced seizures: A controlled study

Brain Research

Volumn 918, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 60-66

  Sunderam, Sridhar ^a   Osorio, Ivan ^a,b   Watkins III, James F ^b   Wilkinson, Steven B ^a,b   Frei, Mark G ^a   Davis, Richard E ^b  

^a Flint Hills Scientific LLC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

3 Mercaptoprionic acid; Anti seizure effect; Convulsant; Left vagus nerve stimulation; Seizure probability

Indexed keywords

3 MERCAPTOPROPIONIC ACID; METHYLATROPINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HYPOXEMIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEIZURE; SEIZURE SUSCEPTIBILITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ATROPINE DERIVATIVES; BRADYCARDIA; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PARASYMPATHOLYTICS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGY; SCIATIC NERVE; SEIZURES; TIME FACTORS; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 0035834324     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(01)02928-6     Document Type: Article

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