The acute and chronic effect of vagus nerve stimulation in genetic absence epilepsy rats from Strasbourg (GAERS)

Epilepsia

Volumn 46, Issue SUPPL. 5, 2005, Pages 94-97

  Dedeurwaerdere, Stefanie ^a   Vonck, Kristl ^a   Van Hese, Peter ^a,b   Wadman, Wytse ^c   Boon, Paul ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Absence epilepsy; GAERS; Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS)

Indexed keywords

ABSENCE; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; IMPLANT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGUS NERVE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; FEMALE; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 21844479803     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2005.01015.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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