Epileptic focus stimulation and seizure control in the rat model of kainic acid-induced limbic seizures

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 355-360

  Urino, Tomoyuki ^a   Hashizume, Kiyotaka ^a   Maehara, Michiyo ^b   Kato, Kouichi ^a   Okada, Yoshikazu ^a   Hori, Tomokatsu ^a   Tanaka, Tatsuya ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antiepileptic effect; Deep brain stimulation; Experimental epilepsy; Kainic acid; Limbic seizure

Indexed keywords

KAINIC ACID;

AKINESIA; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; REARING; SPIKE WAVE; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; KAINIC ACID; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEIZURES; STATUS EPILEPTICUS; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; THALAMUS;

EID: 77953422326     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.50.355     Document Type: Article

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