Characterization of febrile seizures and febrile seizure susceptibility in mouse inbred strains

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 578-586

  Van Gassen, K L I ^a   Hessel, E V S ^a   Ramakers, G M J ^a   Notenboom, R G E ^a   Wolterink Donselaar, I G ^a   Brakkee, J H ^a   Godschalk, T C ^a   Qiao, X ^a   Spruijt, B M ^b   Van Nieuwenhuizen, O ^a   De Graan, P N E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Epileptogenesis; Fever; Hippocampus; Hyperthermia

Indexed keywords

CONVULSANT AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEBRILE CONVULSION; GENETIC SCREENING; HYPERTHERMIA; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONVULSANTS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEVER; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED AKR; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; PENTYLENETETRAZOLE; PHENOTYPE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEIZURES, FEBRILE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; MUS; RATTUS;

EID: 47249166436     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2008.00393.x     Document Type: Article

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