Termination of epileptiform activity by cooling in rat hippocampal slice epilepsy models

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 70, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 200-210

  Motamedi, Gholam K ^a,b   Salazar, Patricia ^a,c   Smith, Eric L ^a   Lesser, Ronald P ^d,e   Webber, William R S ^d   Ortinski, Pavel I ^f   Vicini, Stefano ^f   Rogawski, Michael A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

4 Aminopyridine; Bicuculline; Cooling; Epileptiform discharge; Hippocampus; Magnesium free

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOPYRIDINE; BICUCULLINE; MAGNESIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN SLICE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

4-AMINOPYRIDINE; ANIMALS; BICUCULLINE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CRYOTHERAPY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRODES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEIZURES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 33746904381     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2006.05.001     Document Type: Article

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