Effective suppression of hippocampal seizures in rats by direct hippocampal cooling with a Peltier chip: Laboratory investigation

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 791-797

  Tanaka, Nobuhiro ^a   Fujii, Masami ^a   Imoto, Hirochika ^a   Uchiyama, Joji ^b   Nakano, Kimihiko ^c   Nomura, Sadahiro ^a   Fujisawa, Hirosuke ^a   Kunitsugu, Ichiro ^a   Saito, Takashi ^b   Suzuki, Michiyasu ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Focal cooling; Hippocampal seizure; Kainaic acid; Rat; Thermoelectric device

Indexed keywords

HALOTHANE; KAINIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; DEVICE; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PELTIER CHIP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; CRYOTHERAPY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEIZURES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 41849148625     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/JNS/2008/108/4/0791     Document Type: Article

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