Thalamic lesions in a genetic rat model of absence epilepsy: Dissociation between spike-wave discharges and sleep spindles

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 217, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 25-37

  Meeren, Hanneke K M ^a   Veening, Jan G ^b   Möderscheim, Tanja A E ^c   Coenen, Anton M L ^c   van Luijtelaar, Gilles ^c  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Absence epilepsy; Cortex; Genetic model; Ibotenic acid lesions; Reticular thalamic nucleus; Sleep spindles; Spike wave discharges; Thalamocortical oscillations; Thalamus; WAG Rij rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EEG ABNORMALITY; EPILEPSY; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SLEEP SPINDLE; SPIKE WAVE; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; RATS; SLEEP STAGES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THALAMUS;

EID: 64249125000     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2009.01.009     Document Type: Article

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