Cognitive performance and convulsion risk after experimentally-induced febrile-seizures in rat

International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue , 2014, Pages 19-23

  Rajab, Ebrahim ^a   Abdeen, Zahra ^b   Hassan, Zuhair ^b   Alsaffar, Yousif ^b   Mandeel, Mohammad ^b   Shawaaf, Fatima Al ^b   Al Ansari, Sali ^c   Kamal, Amer ^b  

^a AHLIA UNIVERSITY   (Bahrain)

^b ARABIAN GULF UNIVERSITY   (Bahrain)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognitive performance; Convulsion risk; Febrile seizures; Pentylenetetrazole; Rat; Water maze

Indexed keywords

PENTETRAZOLE; CONVULSANT AGENT;

ADULT; AIR TEMPERATURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EXPERIMENTALLY FEBRILE SEIZURE; FEBRILE CONVULSION; HYPERTHERMIA; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEMORY; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RAT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL LEARNING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMPLICATION; DISEASE MODEL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; FEVER; MAZE TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SEIZURES; SEIZURES, FEBRILE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME; TOXICITY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; COGNITION DISORDERS; CONVULSANTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEVER; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; PENTYLENETETRAZOLE; PROBABILITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SEIZURES; SEIZURES, FEBRILE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84893415708     PISSN: 07365748     EISSN: 1873474X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdevneu.2014.01.001     Document Type: Article

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