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The effects of the immature rat model of febrile seizures on the occurrence of later generalized tonic-clonic and absence epilepsy.
Brain research. Developmental brain research - 1 Jan 2005
Ateş Nurbay, Akman Ozlem, Karson Ayşe
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This study was designed to investigate whether the intensity of experimental febrile seizures reduces the threshold to generalized tonic-clonic epilepsy and its effects on the development of generalized absence epilepsy in adulthood. For the evaluation of absence epilepsy, WAG/Rij rats and for the tonic-clonic seizures, PTZ injected Wistar rats were used. Our results showed that while the frequency of the...
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