The influence of strain and housing on two types of spike-wave discharges in rats

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-7

  Schridde, U ^a   Van Luijtelaar, G ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Absence epilepsy; ACI rats; Enriched environment; Housing; Impoverished environment; Spike wave discharges; WAG Rij rats

Indexed keywords

ABSENCE; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; GENETIC MODEL; HOUSING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SEIZURE; SPIKE WAVE;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENT; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; PHENOTYPE; RATS; RATS, INBRED ACI; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0742271178     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-1848.2004.00034.x     Document Type: Article

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