Electroencephalographic characterization of spike-wave discharges in cortex and thalamus in WAG/Rij rats

Epilepsia

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2296-2311

  Sitnikova, Evgenia ^a,b   Van Luijtelaar, Gilles ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGHER NERVOUS ACTIVITY AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Absence epilepsy; EEG waveform; Generalized seizures; Grand average EEG; SWD

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FRONTAL CORTEX; MALE; NONHUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; SPIKE WAVE; THALAMUS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; VALIDATION PROCESS; WAVEFORM;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHENOTYPE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RATS, WISTAR; THALAMUS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 36949014517     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2007.01250.x     Document Type: Article

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