Memory impairment following status epilepticus in immature rats: Time-course and environmental effects

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 501-513

  Rutten, Annemarieke ^a,b   Van Albada, Mirjam ^a,b   Silveira, Diosely C ^a   Cha, Byung Ho ^a   Liu, Xianzeng ^a   Hu, Yingchu N ^a   Cilio, Maria Roberta ^a   Holmes, Gregory L ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Learning; Pilocarpine; Seizures; Water maze

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM; PILOCARPINE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPILEPTIC STATE; EVALUATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMATURITY; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; WEANING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGING; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; GROWTH CONES; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEIZURES; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; STATUS EPILEPTICUS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036460079     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2002.02103.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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