Vigabatrin therapy implicates neocortical high frequency oscillations in an animal model of infantile spasms

Neurobiology of Disease

Volumn 82, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-11

  Frost, James D ^b   Le, John T ^a,b   Lee, Chong L ^a,b   Ballester Rosado, Carlos ^a,b   Hrachovy, Richard A ^b,c   Swann, John W ^a,b  

^a Cain Foundation Laboratories   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MICHAEL E DEBAKEY VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticonvulsant; Epilepsy; HFOs; Hypsarrhythmia; West syndrome

Indexed keywords

TETRODOTOXIN; VIGABATRIN; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HIGH FREQUENCY OSCILLATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPSARRHYTHMIA; INFANTILE SPASM; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NONREM SLEEP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT MODEL; SLOW BRAIN WAVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEORECORDING; ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECTS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFANT; NEOCORTEX; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPASMS, INFANTILE;

ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN MAPPING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NEOCORTEX; RATS; SPASMS, INFANTILE; VIGABATRIN;

EID: 84930628371     PISSN: 09699961     EISSN: 1095953X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2015.04.019     Document Type: Article

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