Differences in sensitivity to the convulsant pilocarpine in substrains and sublines of C57BL/6 mice

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 481-492

  Muller C J ^a,b   Groticke I ^a   Hoffmann, K ^a   Schughart, K ^a   Loscher W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b CENTER FOR SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Genetic differences; Seizures; Status epilepticus; Substrain differences

Indexed keywords

PILOCARPINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INBRED STRAIN; MALE; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SEIZURE SUSCEPTIBILITY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

ANIMALS; CONVULSANTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG RESISTANCE; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MORTALITY; PHENOTYPE; PILOCARPINE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; X CHROMOSOME;

MUS; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 67650434884     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2009.00490.x     Document Type: Article

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