Age-dependent mortality in the pilocarpine model of status epilepticus

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 453, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 233-237

  Blair, Robert E ^a   Deshpande, Laxmikant S ^a   Holbert II, William H ^b   Churn, Severn B ^a   DeLorenzo, Robert J ^a,b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Development; Mortality; Pilocarpine; Senescence; Sprague Dawley rats; Status epilepticus

Indexed keywords

PILOCARPINE;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPILEPTIC STATE; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CONVULSANTS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PILOCARPINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

EID: 61849152926     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.02.035     Document Type: Article

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