Brain-type natriuretic peptide release and seizure activity during vagal nerve stimulation

Epilepsia

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 397-399

  Rauchenzauner, Markus ^a   Haberlandt, Edda ^a   Högler, Wolfgang ^a   Luef, Gerhard ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

BNP; Epilepsy; Seizure; VNS

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; CREATINE KINASE; CREATININE; ETIRACETAM; VALPROIC ACID;

ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN SECRETION; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; HUMANS; MALE; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; SEIZURES; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 33846783285     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2007.00917.x     Document Type: Article

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