Animal models of epilepsy: Use and limitations

Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment

Volumn 10, Issue , 2014, Pages 1693-1705

  Kandratavicius, Ludmyla ^a   Alves Balista, Priscila ^a   Lopes Aguiar, Cleiton ^a   Ruggiero, Rafael Naime ^a   Umeoka, Eduardo Henrique ^a   Garcia Cairasco, Norberto ^a   Bueno Junior, Lezio Soares ^a   Leite, Joao Pereira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Animal model; Epilepsy; Kindling; Neurodevelopment; Pilocarpine

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CONVULSANT AGENT;

ABSENCE; ACUTE DISEASE; AFTERDISCHARGE; ANIMAL MODEL; AUDIOGENIC SEIZURE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSCIOUSNESS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTROSHOCK SEIZURE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENETIC MODEL; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC SEIZURE; IMMATURITY; KINDLING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEWBORN HYPOXIA; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SYMPTOM; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TRAUMATIC EPILEPSY;

EID: 84907210308     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11782021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/NDT.S50371     Document Type: Review

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