Short bursts of weak pulses break postictal inhibition in the neocortex of Wistar rats

Epilepsia

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 636-639

  Tůma, Lukáš ^a   Krýsl, David ^a   Mareš, Jan ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Electrical stimulation; Epilepsy; Kindling; Postictal inhibition; Rat; Seizure

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPILEPSY; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXCITABILITY; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; SEIZURE SUSCEPTIBILITY;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEOCORTEX; NEURAL INHIBITION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REFRACTORY PERIOD, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STATUS EPILEPTICUS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 18344414201     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1528-1157.2003.42702.x     Document Type: Article

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