Localized cortical injections of ethosuximide suppress spike-and-wave activity and reduce the resistance to kindling in genetic absence epilepsy rats (GAERS)

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 7-16

  Gülhan Aker, Rezzan ^a   Tezcan, Kutluhan ^a   Çarçak, Nihan ^b   Sakalli, Eren ^a   Akin, Demet ^c   Onat, Filiz Yilmaz ^a  

^a MARMARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c ISTANBUL BILIM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Circuitry; Cortical focus; Limbic epilepsy; SWD; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

ETHOSUXIMIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ABSENCE; ADULT ANIMAL; AGE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; KINDLING; MALE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPIKE WAVE;

AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; ETHOSUXIMIDE; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 77950521156     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2009.10.013     Document Type: Article

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