Electrical stimulation of the epileptic focus in absence epileptic WAG/Rij rats: Assessment of local and network excitability

Neuroscience

Volumn 188, Issue , 2011, Pages 125-134

  Luttjohann A ^a   Zhang, S ^b   de Peijper, R ^a   van Luijtelaar, G ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Afterdischarges; Electrical evoked potentials; Electrical stimulation; Sleep wake and drowsiness; Somatosensory cortex; WAG Rij rats

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; AFTERDISCHARGE; ALERTNESS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROWSINESS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; NONREM SLEEP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; WAKEFULNESS;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; EVOKED POTENTIALS; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 80955178319     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2011.04.038     Document Type: Article

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