Suppressive effect of callosotomy on epileptic seizures is due to the blockade of enhancement of cortical reactivity by transcallosal volleys

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 51, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 117-121

  Ono, Tomonori ^a   Fujimura, Koichi ^a   Yoshida, Shigeru ^a   Ono, Kenji ^b  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Yokoo Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Callosotomy; Corpus callosum; Cortical reactivity; Epilepsy; Facilitation; Rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036752894     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-1211(02)00105-5     Document Type: Article

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