Impact of injury location and severity on posttraumatic epilepsy in the rat: Role of frontal neocortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1574-1592

  Curia, Giulia ^a,b   Levitt, Michael ^b   Fender, Jason S ^b   Miller, John W ^b,c,d   Ojemann, Jeffrey ^b,c,d   D'Ambrosio, Raimondo ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b Department of Neurological Surgery ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

drug screening; electrocorticography; endophenotype; model; partial seizures; syndrome; trauma

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FOCAL EPILEPSY; INJURY SEVERITY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TRAUMATIC EPILEPSY;

ANIMALS; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, POST-TRAUMATIC; MALE; NEOCORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 79959446922     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhq218     Document Type: Article

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