Effect of intracranial administration of ethosuximide in rats with spontaneous or pentylenetetrazol-induced spike-wave discharges

Epilepsia

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1311-1318

  Chen, Shang Der ^a   Yeh, Keng Hung ^b   Huang, Yu Hsing ^b   Shaw, Fu Zen ^b  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Absence epilepsy; Cortical focus theory; Ethosuximide; Pentylenetetrazol; Spike wave discharge

Indexed keywords

ETHOSUXIMIDE; PENTETRAZOLE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ABSENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPIKE WAVE;

ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; ETHOSUXIMIDE; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; PENTYLENETETRAZOLE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 79959978930     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2011.03067.x     Document Type: Article

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