The relationship between age-related development of spike-and-wave discharges and the resistance to amygdaloid kindling in rats with genetic absence epilepsy

Neurobiology of Disease

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 355-363

  Çarçak, Nihan ^a   Aker, Rezzan Gülhan ^b,c   Özdemir, Osman ^a   Demiralp, Tamer ^a   Onat, Filiz Yilmaz ^b,c  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MARMARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^c MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Absence epilepsy model; Amygdaloid stimulation; GAERS; Kindling resistance; Limbic seizures; Temporal lobe epilepsy model

Indexed keywords

ABSENCE; AGE; AGING; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ABSENCE EPILEPSY RATS FROM STRASBOURG; KINDLING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SPIKE WAVE; WAVEFORM;

AGING; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; LIDOCAINE; MALE; MICROELECTRODES; RATS; RATS, TRANSGENIC; RATS, WISTAR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 56349124700     PISSN: 09699961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2008.07.018     Document Type: Article

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