Furosemide terminates limbic status epilepticus in freely moving rats

Epilepsia

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1141-1144

  Holtkamp, Martin ^a   Matzen, Julia ^a   Buchheim, Katharina ^a   Walker, Matthew C ^b   Meierkord, Hartmut ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Experimental epilepsy model; Freely moving rat; Furosemide; Status epilepticus

Indexed keywords

FUROSEMIDE; PENTOBARBITAL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIURESIS; ELECTROGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEDATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUROSEMIDE; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LOCOMOTION; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

EID: 0041914583     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1528-1157.2003.14003.x     Document Type: Article

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