Effects of seizure severity and seizure repetition on postictal cardiac arrhythmia following maximal electroshock

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 327-331

  Darbin, O ^a   Casebeer, D ^a   Naritoku, D K ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrhythmia; Epilepsy; Kindling; Maximal electroshock; Seizures; Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP); Tonic clonic

Indexed keywords

KETAMINE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRIC SHOCK; FLEXOR REFLEX; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DISEASE; HEART RHYTHM; HINDLIMB; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEIZURE;

EID: 0037716753     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-4886(03)00112-2     Document Type: Article

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