An animal model for SUDEP: The questions shape the answers

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 540-

  Scorza, Fulvio A ^a   Arida, Ricardo M ^a   Terra, Vera C ^b   Cavalheiro, Esper A ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DISEASE MODEL; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; LETTER; LUNG EDEMA; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SUDDEN DEATH; SUDDEN UNEXPECTED DEATH IN EPILEPSY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH, SUDDEN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; SEIZURES;

EID: 67849121279     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2009.06.014     Document Type: Letter

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