Animal models of absence epilepsies: What do they model and do sex and sex hormones matter?

Neurobiology of Disease

Volumn 72, Issue PB, 2014, Pages 167-179

  van Luijtelaar, Gilles ^a   Onat, Filiz Yilmaz ^b   Gallagher, Martin J ^c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Absence epilepsy; Alpha subunits; Atypical absence models; AY 9944; Delta subunits; GABAA receptors; Genetic models; Mice; Neurosteroids; Ovarian cycle; Pregnancy; Puberty; Rats; Sex differences; Typical absence models; WAG Rij

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; SEX HORMONE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR;

ABSENCE EPILEPSY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CHILDHOOD ABSENCE EPILEPSY; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; EPILEPSY; ESTRUS CYCLE; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GENDER; HORMONE ACTION; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MOUSE MODEL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; RAT MODEL; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPIKE WAVE; TREMOR; ANIMAL; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; RAT; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; RATS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84909633426     PISSN: 09699961     EISSN: 1095953X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2014.08.014     Document Type: Review

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