Impact of Corticosterone Treatment on Spontaneous Seizure Frequency and Epileptiform Activity in Mice with Chronic Epilepsy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Castro, Olagide W ^a   Santos, Victor R ^a   Pun, Raymund Y K ^c   McKlveen, Jessica M ^b   Batie, Matthew ^c   Holland, Katherine D ^c   Gardner, Margaret ^b   Garcia Cairasco, Norberto ^a   Herman, James P ^b   Danzer, Steve C ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; PILOCARPINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; EPILEPTOGENESIS; HORMONE ACTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SEIZURE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CORTICOSTERONE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PILOCARPINE; SEIZURES; STATUS EPILEPTICUS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 84866989978     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046044     Document Type: Article

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