Status epilepticus in immature rats leads to behavioural and cognitive impairment and epileptogenesis

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 3255-3265

  Kubová, Hana ^a   Mareš, Pavel ^a   Suchomelová, Lucie ^a   Brožek, Gustav ^a   Druga, Rastislav ^a   Pitkänen, Asla ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Development; Elevated plus maze; Epilepsy; Morris water maze; Open field; Pilocarpine; Video EEG monitoring

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM CHLORIDE; PILOCARPINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CLONIC SEIZURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EPILEPTIC STATE; EPILEPTOGENESIS; IMMATURITY; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PILOCARPINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

EID: 3042716508     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0953-816X.2004.03410.x     Document Type: Article

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