Pilocarpine vs. lithium-pilocarpine for induction of status epilepticus in mice: Development of spontaneous seizures, behavioral alterations and neuronal damage

European Journal of Pharmacology

Volumn 619, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 15-24

  Müller, Christine J ^a,b   Bankstahl, Marion ^a,b   Gröticke, Ina ^a,b   Löscher, Wolfgang ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b CENTER FOR SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Hippocampal damage; Learning and memory; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM; PILOCARPINE;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; LEARNING DISORDER; MEMORY DISORDER; MOUSE; NERVE CELL LESION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEIZURE; SURVIVAL; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MICE; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; PILOCARPINE; RATS; SEIZURES; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

EID: 69749090963     PISSN: 00142999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2009.07.020     Document Type: Article

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