Amygdala kindling in the WAG/Rij rat model of absence epilepsy

Epilepsia

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 33-40

  Aker, Rezzan Gülhan ^a   Yananli, Hasan Raci ^a   Gurbanova, Ayten Azizova ^a   Özkaynakçi, Aydan Ergün ^a   Ateş, Nurbay ^b   Van Luijtelaar, Gilles ^c   Onat, Filiz Yilmaz ^a,d  

^a MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d MARMARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Absence epilepsy rats; Convulsion; GAERS; Generalized epilepsy; Partial epilepsy; Spike and wave discharge

Indexed keywords

ABSENCE; AFTERDISCHARGE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; KINDLING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; RATING SCALE; SEIZURE; SPIKE WAVE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; LIMBIC SYSTEM; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RATS, WISTAR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 33645030258     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2006.00367.x     Document Type: Article

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