A familial spontaneous epileptic feline strain: A novel model of idiopathic/genetic epilepsy

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 85-88

  Kuwabara, Takayuki ^a   Hasegawa, Daisuke ^a   Ogawa, Fukie ^a   Kobayashi, Masanori ^a,c   Fujita, Michio ^a   Suzuki, Hiroetsu ^a   Matsuki, Naoaki ^b   Orima, Hiromitsu ^a  

^a NIPPON VETERINARY AND LIFE SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Animal model; Cat; Genetic model; Idiopathic epilepsy; Spontaneous seizures

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; INBREEDING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CATS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; INBREEDING; PEDIGREE; PENICILLINS;

EID: 77957886568     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2010.08.010     Document Type: Article

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