Study of spontaneous recurrent seizures and morphological alterations after status epilepticus induced by intrahippocampal injection of pilocarpine

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 257-266

  Furtado, M A ^a,b   Castro, O W ^a   Del Vecchio, F ^a   de Oliveira, J A Cortes ^a   Garcia Cairasco, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Institute of Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal model; Epilepsy; Hippocampus; Neurodegeneration; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

PILOCARPINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CELL DENSITY; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPILEPTIC STATE; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MORTALITY; MOSSY FIBER; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; RECURRENT DISEASE; RELIABILITY; SEIZURE; STAINING; VIDEOTAPE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FORELIMB; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; MUSCARINIC AGONISTS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PILOCARPINE; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECURRENCE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STATUS EPILEPTICUS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79951676950     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2010.11.024     Document Type: Article

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