Effect of electroacupuncture stimulation of hindlimb on seizure incidence and supragranular mossy fiber sprouting in a rat model of epilepsy

Journal of Physiological Sciences

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 309-315

  Guo, Jianjun ^a   Liu, Jianhua ^b   Fu, Wenbin ^b   Ma, Wentao ^a   Xu, Zhenhua ^b   Yuan, Mingquan ^a   Zhou, Xiaodong ^a   Hu, Jiming ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUANGZHOU UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Electroacupuncture; Electroencephalogram (EEG); Epilepsy; Mossy fiber sprouting; Spontaneous recurrent seizure

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM; PILOCARPINE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HINDLIMB; MALE; MOSSY FIBER; NONHUMAN; RAT; SCORING SYSTEM; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HINDLIMB; MALE; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; MUSCARINIC AGONISTS; PILOCARPINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECURRENCE;

EID: 55249120436     PISSN: 18806546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2170/physiolsci.RP010508     Document Type: Article

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