Absence seizures during pregnancy in WAG/Rij rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 623-627

  Tolmacheva, Elena A ^a   Chepurnov, Serguei A ^a   Chepurnova, Nina E ^a   Kochetkov, Yakov A ^b   Van Luijtelaar, Gilles ^c  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b Moscow Research Institute of Psychiatry   (Russian Federation)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Absence seizures; Estradiol; Pregnancy; Progesterone; WAG Rij rats

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE; STEROID HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHILDBIRTH; DELIVERY; DIESTRUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE INHIBITION; LACTATION; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SEIZURE; SPIKE WAVE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 2642567466     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2004.02.028     Document Type: Article

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