Seizures in the intrahippocampal kainic acid epilepsy model: Characterization using long-term video-EEG monitoring in the rat

Acta Neurologica Scandinavica

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 293-303

  Raedt, Robrecht ^a   Van Dycke, A ^a   Van Melkebeke, D ^a   De Smedt, T ^a   Claeys, P ^a   Wyckhuys, T ^a   Vonck, K ^a   Wadman, W ^b   Boon, P ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Characterization; Intrahippocampal; Kainic acid; Seizures; Status epilepticus; Temporal lobe epilepsy; Video EEG monitoring

Indexed keywords

KAINIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANNULA; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; NONHUMAN; RAT; SEIZURE;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONVULSANTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; KAINIC ACID; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STATUS EPILEPTICUS; TIME FACTORS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 64549161179     PISSN: 00016314     EISSN: 16000404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0404.2008.01108.x     Document Type: Article

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