Spontaneous recurrent seizures and neuropathology in the chronic phase of the pilocarpine and picrotoxin model epilepsy

Neurological Research

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 199-209

  Hamani, Clement ^a   Mello, Luiz E A M ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Animal models; Cholinergic; Epilepsy; GABA; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

PICROTOXIN; PILOCARPINE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; EPILEPTOGENESIS; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; RAT; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEIZURE;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ACTION POTENTIALS; AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; GABA ANTAGONISTS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; MALE; MUSCARINIC AGONISTS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PICROTOXIN; PILOCARPINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS;

EID: 0036183483     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/016164102101199611     Document Type: Article

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