Bilateral anterior thalamic nucleus lesions are not protective against seizures in chronic pilocarpine epileptic rats

Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 143-147

  Hamani, Clement ^a,c   Ewerton, Flavio I S ^b   Marcolin De Almeida, Flávia ^a   Bonilha, Saulo M ^a   Covolan, Luciene ^a   Fantin Cavarsan, Clarissa ^a   Ballester, Gerson ^b   Mello, Luiz E ^a   Lozano, Andres M ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anterior nucleus; Deep brain stimulation; Epilepsy; Surgery; Thalamotomy; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

PILOCARPINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE MODEL; EPILEPTIC STATE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RAT; SEIZURE; SHAM PROCEDURE; THALAMOTOMY; THALAMUS ANTERIOR NUCLEUS; THERAPY EFFECT;

ANIMALS; ANTERIOR THALAMIC NUCLEI; EPILEPSY; MALE; PILOCARPINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEIZURES;

EID: 62849128383     PISSN: 10116125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000209294     Document Type: Article

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