Early MR diffusion and relaxation changes in the parahippocampal gyrus precede the onset of spontaneous seizures in an animal model of chronic limbic epilepsy

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 224, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 258-270

  Parekh, Mansi B ^a,c   Carney, Paul R ^a,b,c   Sepulveda, Hector ^b,c   Norman, Wendy ^c   King, Michael ^a,c   Mareci, Thomas H ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Epilepsy Animal models; Epileptogenesis; Hippocampus; Magnetic resonance imaging; Parahippocampal gyrus; Relaxation; Status epilepticus; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EPILEPTIC STATE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; SUBICULUM; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 77953722288     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2010.03.031     Document Type: Article

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