Seizure onset times for rats receiving systemic lithium and pilocarpine: Sources of variability

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 71, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 7-17

  Persinger, M A ^a   Stewart, L S ^a   Richards, P M ^a   Harrigan, Tom ^a   O'Connor, R P ^a   Bureau, Y R J ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain damage; Corticosterone; Dexamethasome; Early handling; Food deprivation; Limbic epilepsy; Lithium pilocarpine; Seizure onset time

Indexed keywords

CLOMIPRAMINE; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; DEXAMETHASONE; LITHIUM; PILOCARPINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DOSE RESPONSE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; ILLUMINATION; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; TIME; WEANING;

ANIMALS; ANTIMANIC AGENTS; BRAIN; CORTICOSTERONE; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; LITHIUM CHLORIDE; MALE; MUSCARINIC AGONISTS; PILOCARPINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; SEIZURES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037006017     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-3057(01)00583-4     Document Type: Article

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