Repeatable focal seizure suppression: A rat preparation to study consequences of seizure activity based on urethane anesthesia and reversible carotid artery occlusion

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 155, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 241-250

  Saito, Takeshi ^a   Sakamoto, Kenichi ^a   Koizumi, Kiyomi ^a   Stewart, Mark ^a  

^a SUNY Downstate Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Forebrain occlusion; Hippocampus; Seizure; Urethane

Indexed keywords

KAINIC ACID; KETAMINE; URETHAN; XYLAZINE;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CAROTID ARTERY LIGATION; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; EPILEPTIC STATE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VAGUS NERVE; WAKEFULNESS;

ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; ANIMALS; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; KAINIC ACID; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEIZURES; URETHANE;

EID: 33747160725     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2006.01.021     Document Type: Article

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