Acute vagus nerve stimulation does not suppress spike and wave discharges in "Genetic Absence Epilepsy Rats from Strasbourg"

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 59, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 191-198

  Dedeurwaerdere, Stefanie ^a   Vonck, Kristl ^a   Claeys, Pieter ^a   Van Hese, Peter ^a   D'Havé, Michel ^a   Grisar, Thierry ^b   Naritoku, Dean ^c   Boon, Paul ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Absence epilepsy; EEG; GAERS; Vagus nerve stimulation

Indexed keywords

ABSENCE; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; SPIKE; SPIKE WAVE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; FEMALE; MALE; RATS; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 3042814900     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2004.04.005     Document Type: Article

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