Hippocampal epileptogenesis in animal models of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis: The importance of the "latent period" and other concepts

Epilepsia

Volumn 49, Issue SUPPL. 9, 2008, Pages 85-92

  Sloviter, Robert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dentate gyrus; Hippocampus; Rats; Status epilepticus

Indexed keywords

DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE MODEL; EPILEPTIC STATE; EPILEPTOGENESIS; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; LATENT PERIOD; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; RATS; SCLEROSIS;

EID: 57249094423     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01931.x     Document Type: Review

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