Emergence of spontaneous seizures during the year following lithium/pilocarpine-induced epilepsy and neuronal loss within the right temporal cortices

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 440-445

  Persinger, M A ^a   Dupont, M J ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dentate gyrus; Lithium pilocarpine; Rat; Right hemisphere; Spontaneous seizures; Temporal cortices

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM CHLORIDE; PILOCARPINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR COMMISSURE; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMMISSURE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL LOSS; CLONUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DENTATE GYRUS; EPILEPSY; FORELIMB; HIPPOCAMPUS; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; RAT; RECORDING; SEIZURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; EPILEPSY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; LITHIUM; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURONS; PILOCARPINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEIZURES; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 4043066597     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2004.03.007     Document Type: Article

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