Experimental petit mal-like seizure induced by microinjection of Kainic acid into the unilateral mediodorsal nucleus of the thalamus

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 285-290

  Kato, Koichi ^a   Urino, Tomoyuki ^a   Hori, Tomokatsu ^a   Tsuda, Hiroshige ^b   Yoshida, Katsunari ^b   Hashizume, Kiyotaka ^b   Tanaka, Tatsuya ^b  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Experimental model; Kainic acid; Seizure; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

DEOXYGLUCOSE; GLUCOSE; KAINIC ACID;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BRAIN; BRAIN METABOLISM; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FRONTAL CORTEX; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MICROINJECTION; NONHUMAN; PETIT MAL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SPIKE WAVE; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS; WISTAR RAT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AWARENESS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FRONTAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; KAINIC ACID; MALE; MEDIODORSAL THALAMIC NUCLEUS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STEREOTYPED BEHAVIOR;

EID: 48249149083     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.48.285     Document Type: Article

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