Single injection of a low dose of pentylenetetrazole leads to epileptogenesis in an animal model of cortical dysplasia

Epilepsia

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 801-810

  Oghlakian, Roger O ^a   Tilelli, Cristiane Q ^a   Hiremath, Girish K ^a   Alexopoulos, Andreas V ^a   Najm, Imad M ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal model; Cortical dysplasia; Epilepsy; In utero radiation; Second hit

Indexed keywords

PENTETRAZOLE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE SUSCEPTIBILITY; SPIKE WAVE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CONVULSANTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; MALE; MALFORMATIONS OF CORTICAL DEVELOPMENT; PENTYLENETETRAZOLE; PREGNANCY; RADIATION; RADIATION INJURIES, EXPERIMENTAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 63849201514     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01815.x     Document Type: Article

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