Anti-convulsant effect of electrical stimulation and lesioning of the anterior thalamic nucleus on kainic acid-induced focal limbic seizure in rats

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 74, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 163-170

  Takebayashi, Seiji ^a   Hashizume, Kiyotaka ^a   Tanaka, Tatsuya ^a   Hodozuka, Akira ^a  

^a ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anterior thalamic nucleus; Electrical stimulation; Focal limbic seizure

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14; DEOXYGLUCOSE; GLUCOSE; KAINIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN METABOLISM; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GLUCOSE UTILIZATION; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THALAMUS ANTERIOR NUCLEUS; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTERIOR THALAMIC NUCLEI; ANTIMETABOLITES; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; DEOXYGLUCOSE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; GLUCOSE; KAINIC ACID; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEIZURES; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 34247494184     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2007.03.007     Document Type: Article

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