Correlation between electrocorticographic and motor phenomena in lindane-induced experimental epilepsy in rats

Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 173-179

  Vučević, Danijela ^a   Hrnčić, Dragan ^a   Radosavljević, Tatjana ^a   Mladenović, Dušan ^a   Rašić Marković, Aleksandra ^a   Lončar Stevanović, Helena ^a   Djurić, Dragan ^a   Macut, Djuro ^a   Šušić, Veselinka ^b   Stanojlović, Olivera ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b SERBIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Serbia)

Author keywords

EEG; Lindane; Power spectra; Rats; Seizure grades

Indexed keywords

DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; LINDANE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CLONIC SEIZURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; SPECTROSCOPY; SPIKE WAVE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; LINDANE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 42149154827     PISSN: 00084212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/Y08-010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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