Evidence for augmented brainstem activated forebrain seizures in Wistar Audiogenic Rats subjected to transauricular electroshock

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 369, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 19-23

  Magalhães, Lucas Henrique Maia ^a   Garcia Cairasco, Norberto ^b   Massensini, André Ricardo ^a   Doretto, Maria Carolina ^a   Moraes, Márcio Flávio Dutra ^a  

^a Av Antonio C   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Electroshock; Epilepsy; Seizure; WAR; Wistar Audiogenic Rats

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDIOGENIC SEIZURE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTRIC SHOCK; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KINDLING; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROSHOCK; EPILEPSY, REFLEX; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 5644241072     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.07.018     Document Type: Article

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