Iron-induced experimental cortical seizures: Electroencephalographic mapping of seizure spread in the subcortical brain areas

Seizure

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 680-690

  Sharma, Varsha ^a   Babu, P Prakash ^b   Singh, Arun ^a   Singh, Sangeeta ^a,c   Singh, Rameshwar ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

^c BAREILLY COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Electroencephalography; Epilepsy; Ethosuximide; Iron epilepsy; Mapping of intracerebral epileptic activity; Multi unit activity

Indexed keywords

ETHOSUXIMIDE; IRON;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RAT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 35548960463     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2007.05.012     Document Type: Article

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