Animal models of limbic epilepsies: What can they tell us?

Brain Pathology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 240-256

  Coulter, Douglas A ^a   McIntyre, Dan C ^b   Löscher, Wolfgang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; KINDLING; LIMBIC CORTEX; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; LIMBIC SYSTEM;

EID: 0036210298     PISSN: 10156305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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