Vagus nerve stimulation does not affect spatial memory in fast rats, but has both anti-convulsive and pro-convulsive effects on amygdala-kindled seizures

Neuroscience

Volumn 140, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1443-1451

  Dedeurwaerdere, S ^a,b   Gilby, K ^c   Vonck, K ^a   Delbeke, J ^d   Boon, P ^a   McIntyre, D ^c  

^a Reference Centre for Refractory Epilepsy   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

animal model of epilepsy; body weight; epileptogenesis; Morris water maze; seizure prone; VNS

Indexed keywords

AFTERDISCHARGE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; KINDLING; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; SEIZURE SUSCEPTIBILITY; SPATIAL MEMORY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; RATS; SEIZURES; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 33745288176     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2006.03.014     Document Type: Article

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