Pilocarpine model of temporal lobe epilepsy shows enhanced response to general anesthetics

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 219, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 308-318

  Long, Jennifer J A ^a,b   Shen, Bixia ^a,b   Luo, Tao ^a,b   Stewart, Lee ^a,b   McMurran, Thomas J A ^a,b   Leung, L Stan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

General anesthesia; Kindling; Pilocarpine; Righting reflex; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; DIAZEPAM; HALOTHANE; MUSCIMOL; PHENOBARBITAL; PILOCARPINE; PROPOFOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LOSS; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG RESPONSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPILEPTIC STATE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; KINDLING; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIFORM CORTEX; RAT; REFLEX DISORDER; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ANESTHETICS, GENERAL; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; CONVULSANTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; GABA AGONISTS; HALOTHANE; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; MALE; MUSCIMOL; NERVE DEGENERATION; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; PENTOBARBITAL; PILOCARPINE; PROPOFOL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

EID: 68549092445     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2009.05.036     Document Type: Article

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