The auriculo-vagal afferent pathway and its role in seizure suppression in rats

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue , 2013, Pages

  He, Wei ^a   Jing, Xiang Hong ^a   Zhu, Bing ^a   Zhu, Xin Long ^a   Li, Liang ^a   Bai, Wan Zhu ^a   Ben, Hui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHINESE MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENTETRAZOLE; ANESTHETIC AGENT; CHOLERA TOXIN; CONVULSANT AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EXTERNAL EAR; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; RAT; SEIZURE; SENSORY NERVE; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; THERAPY EFFECT; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; VAGUS NERVE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; WAKEFULNESS; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPINAL CORD; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANESTHETICS; ANIMALS; CHOLERA TOXIN; CONVULSANTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEURONS; PENTYLENETETRAZOLE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SEIZURES; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPINAL CORD; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION; VAGUS NERVE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84881166709     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-14-85     Document Type: Article

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