Behavioral and EEG effects of GABAergic manipulation of the nigrotectal pathway in the Wistar audiogenic rat strain

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 191-199

  Rossetti, Franco ^a,c   Rodrigues, Marcelo Cairrão Araujo ^a,b   De Oliveira, José Antônio Cortes ^a   Garcia Cairasco, Norberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^c WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Audiogenic seizures; Bicuculline; Electroencephalographic oscillation; Muscimol; Neuroethology

Indexed keywords

BICUCULLINE; MUSCIMOL; PHOSPHATE BUFFERED SALINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; AUDIOGENIC SEIZURE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ETHOLOGY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GENETIC SELECTION; HISTOLOGY; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MICROINJECTION; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; RAT; RUNNING; SEIZURE SUSCEPTIBILITY; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA PARS RETICULATA; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TONIC SEIZURE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BICUCULLINE; CORPUS STRIATUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GABA-A RECEPTOR AGONISTS; GABA-A RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; MALE; MUSCIMOL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEIZURES; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 80053386880     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2011.06.033     Document Type: Article

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