Seizure elements and seizure element transitions during tonic-clonic seizure activity in the synapsin I/II double knockout mouse: A neuroethological description

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 582-590

  Etholm, Lars ^a   Heggelund, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Behavioral analyses; Epilepsy; Knockout mice; Myoclonies; Neuroethology; Running fit; Synaptic terminal regulatory proteins; Tonic clonic seizures

Indexed keywords

SYNAPSIN I; SYNAPSIN II;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; GENE INACTIVATION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MOUSE; MUTATION; MYOCLONUS; NONHUMAN; RUNNING; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TRUNK;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; SEIZURES; SYNAPSINS; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 63749126650     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2009.02.021     Document Type: Article

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