Acute seizure-suppressing effect of vagus nerve stimulation in the amygdala kindled rat

Brain Research

Volumn 1319, Issue , 2010, Pages 155-163

  Rijkers, Kim ^a,b,c   Aalbers, Marlien ^a   Hoogland, Govert ^a,b,c   van Winden, Larissa ^a   Vles, Johannes ^a,b,c   Steinbusch, Harry ^a,b,c   Majoie, Marian ^a,d  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c European Graduate School For Neuroscience   (Netherlands)

^d EPILEPSY CENTER KEMPENHAEGHE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Kindling; Seizure; Vagus nerve stimulation

Indexed keywords

NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ACUTE DISEASE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPILEPSY; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KINDLING; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEIZURES; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; TIME FACTORS; VAGUS NERVE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 76749168443     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.01.014     Document Type: Article

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