Increased hippocampal T2 in a rat model of pentylenetetrazol-induced kindling correlates with seizure scores

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 292, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 16-23

  Fang, Fang ^a,b   Lei, Hao ^a  

^a Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Brain; Epilepsy; Kindling; Magnetic resonance imaging; Pentylenetetrazol; Rat

Indexed keywords

CONVULSANT AGENT; PENTETRAZOLE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOSIS; ATROPHY; BRAIN REGION; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPILEPTOGENESIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KINDLING; MALE; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING TEST; SEIZURE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; CELL COUNT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DISEASE MODEL; HOSPITALIZATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURONS; PENTYLENETETRAZOLE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEIZURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 77949875437     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2010.02.014     Document Type: Article

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