Motor map expansion in the pilocarpine model of temporal lobe epilepsy is dependent on seizure severity and rat strain

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 217, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 421-428

  Young, Nicole A ^a   Vuong, Jennifer ^a   Ozen, Lana J ^a   Flynn, Corey ^a   Teskey, G Campbell ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Intracortical microstimulation; Kindling; Map expansion; Neuroplasticity; Pilocarpine; Seizure; Status epilepticus

Indexed keywords

PILOCARPINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPILEPTIC STATE; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FORELIMB; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; LIMB MOVEMENT; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SEIZURE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; CONVULSANTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PILOCARPINE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, WISTAR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

EID: 67349206918     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2009.03.043     Document Type: Article

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