Similarities and differences of acute nonconvulsive seizures and other epileptic activities following penetrating and ischemic brain injuries in rats

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 580-590

  Lu, Xi Chun May ^a   Mountney, Andrea ^a   Chen, Zhiyong ^a   Wei, Guo ^a   Cao, Ying ^a   Leung, Lai Yee ^a   Khatri, Vivek ^a   Cunningham, Tracy ^a   Tortella, Frank C ^a  

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

Author keywords

EEG rat; MCAO; NCS; PBBI

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BALLISTICS; BRAIN INJURY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NONCONVULSIVE SEIZURE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SEIZURE; WAVEFORM;

ANIMALS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HEAD INJURIES, PENETRATING; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEIZURES;

EID: 84876917052     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: 15579042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2012.2641     Document Type: Article

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