Exogenous antenatal glucocorticoid treatment reduces susceptibility for hippocampal kindled and maximal electroconvulsive seizures in infant rats

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 198, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 303-312

  Young, Nicole A ^a   Teskey, G Campbell ^a   Henry, Luke C ^a   Edwards, Heather E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b FOOTHILLS HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Afterdischarge threshold; Betamethasone; Corticosteroids; Development; Dexamethasone; Early life; Epilepsy; Hippocampus; HPA axis; Persistence; Prenatal; Seizure

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELECTRIC SHOCK; FEMALE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; KINDLING; LITTER SIZE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; SEIZURE THRESHOLD; SKIN; WEIGHT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BETAMETHASONE; BODY WEIGHT; DEXAMETHASONE; ELECTROSHOCK; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HIPPOCAMPUS; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEIZURES; SEX FACTORS; STILLBIRTH; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33645728649     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2005.11.013     Document Type: Article

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