Long-term changes in susceptibility to pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus following neocortical injuries in the rat at different developmental stages

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 216-224

  Setkowicz, Zuzanna ^a   Janeczko, Krzysztof ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Developing brain; Mechanical injury; Pilocarpine model of epilepsy; Seizure susceptibility

Indexed keywords

PILOCARPINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG SENSITIVITY; EPILEPTIC STATE; EVOKED RESPONSE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MORTALITY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; PERFUSION; PERINATAL PERIOD; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 0037360975     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-1211(03)00029-9     Document Type: Article

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