The effects of the immature rat model of febrile seizures on the occurrence of later generalized tonic-clonic and absence epilepsy

Developmental Brain Research

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 137-140

  Ateş, Nurbay ^a   Akman, Özlem ^a   Karson, Ayşe ^a  

^a KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Absence epilepsy; Febrile Seizure; Generalized tonic clonic epilepsy; Pentylenetetrazol; WAG Rij

Indexed keywords

PENTETRAZOLE;

ABSENCE; ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEBRILE CONVULSION; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN; CAUSALITY; CONVULSANTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; PENTYLENETETRAZOLE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEIZURES, FEBRILE;

RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 11144254065     PISSN: 01653806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devbrainres.2004.10.001     Document Type: Article

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