Technical note: Preliminary results in development of a novel intracisternal penicillin seizure model in the rat

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 10, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2005, Pages 3009-3012

  Patwardhan, Ravish V ^a,c   Calvert, John W ^a   Besio, Walter ^b   Kusaka, Gen ^a   Kusaka, Ikuyo ^a   Zhang, John ^a   Nanda, Anil ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Louisiana Tech University   (United States)

^c Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at Shreveport   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal Model; Epilepsy; Penicillin; Intracisternal

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN G;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BODY POSTURE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; RAT; SEIZURE; TRACHEOSTOMY;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 21344467960     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/1757     Document Type: Article

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