Prenatal stress potentiates pilocarpine-induced epileptic behaviors in infant rats both time and sex dependently

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 166-170

  Sadaghiani, Mahzad Mehrzad ^a   Saboory, Ehsan ^b  

^a TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b URMIA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Adrenal hormones; Developing brain; Epileptic behavior; Pilocarpine induced seizures; Rat

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; PILOCARPINE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EPILEPSY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL STRESS; PROGENY; RAT; ROOM TEMPERATURE; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DISEASE MODEL; EXERCISE; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PROCEDURES; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CORTICOSTERONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE; PILOCARPINE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77954385514     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2010.04.016     Document Type: Article

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