Epileptogenesis and neuropathology after different types of status epilepticus induced by prolonged electrical stimulation of the basolateral amygdala in rats

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 55, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 83-103

  Brandt, Claudia ^a   Glien, Maike ^a   Potschka, Heidrun ^a   Volk, Holger ^a   Löscher, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal model; Epileptogenesis; Kindling; Neuropathology; Seizure

Indexed keywords

DIAZEPAM; KAINIC ACID; PILOCARPINE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPILEPTIC STATE; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; NERVE CELL LESION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PELIZAEUS MERZBACHER DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 0041429359     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-1211(03)00114-1     Document Type: Article

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