Two types of seizures in homocysteine thiolactone-treated adult rats, behavioral and electroencephalographic study

Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 329-339

  Stanojlović, Olivera ^a   Rašić Marković, Aleksandra ^a   Hrnčić, Dragan ^a   Šušić, Veselinka ^b   MacUt, Djuro ^a   Radosavljević, Tatjana ^a   Djuric, Dragan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b SERBIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Absence seizures; Electroencephalography; Generalized epilepsy; Spike wave discharges

Indexed keywords

HOMOCYSTEINE THIOLACTONE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; LATENT PERIOD; LETHALITY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECORDING; SEIZURE; SKULL; SPIKE WAVE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TONIC SEIZURE; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HOMOCYSTEINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEIZURES;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 67349202867     PISSN: 02724340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10571-008-9324-8     Document Type: Article

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