The effect of amygdala kindling on neuronal firing patterns in the lateral thalamus in the GAERS model of absence epilepsy

Epilepsia

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 654-665

  Çarçak, Nihan ^a   Zheng, Thomas ^b   Ali, Idrish ^b   Abdullah, Ahmad ^b,c   French, Chris ^b   Powell, Kim L ^b   Jones, Nigel C ^b   Van Raay, Leena ^b   Rind, Gil ^b   Onat, Filiz ^d   O'Brien, Terence J ^b,c  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d MARMARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Absence epilepsy; Amygdala kindling; In vivo juxtacellular single unit recordings; Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy; Ventrobasal thalamic nucleus

Indexed keywords

ABSENCE; ADULT; AFTERDISCHARGE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROGRAPHY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; KINDLING; MALE; MESIAL TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROLEPTANESTHESIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPIKE WAVE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS LATERAL NUCLEUS; THALAMUS POSTERIOR NUCLEUS; THALAMUS RETICULAR NUCLEUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

ABSENCE EPILEPSY; AMYGDALA KINDLING; IN VIVO JUXTACELLULAR SINGLE UNIT RECORDINGS; MESIAL TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; VENTROBASAL THALAMIC NUCLEUS;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CA3 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; LATERAL THALAMIC NUCLEI; MALE; NERVE NET; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RATS, WISTAR; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84901277638     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/epi.12592     Document Type: Article

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