Dissociation of seizure traits in inbred strains of mice using the flurothyl kindling model of epileptogenesis

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 215, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 60-68

  Papandrea, Dominick ^a   Anderson, Tara M ^a   Herron, Bruce J ^b,c   Ferland, Russell J ^a,b  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Brainstem; Clonic; Epileptogenesis; Flurothyl; Forebrain; Generalized seizure threshold; Inbred mice; Kindling; Tonic

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; EPILEPTOGENESIS; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC REGULATION; INBRED STRAIN; KINDLING; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SEIZURE THRESHOLD;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY; FLUROTHYL; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; PHENOTYPE; REACTION TIME; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 57449090852     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2008.09.016     Document Type: Article

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