Sensory stimulation reduces seizure severity but not afterdischarge duration of partial seizures kindled in the hippocampus at threshold intensities

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 388, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 33-38

  Valentine, Pamela A ^a,b,c   Fremit, Sonja L ^b   Teskey, G Campbell ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Hippocampus; Kindling; Rat; Seizure suppression; Sensory stimulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; KINDLING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; SENSORY STIMULATION; ANIMAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DISEASE MODEL; EPILEPSY; HEARING; LONG EVANS RAT; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; ODOR; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSATION; SENSORY NERVE; STIMULATION; TOUCH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SENSATION; SMELL; TOUCH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 27244441433     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2005.06.028     Document Type: Article

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