Anatomical and behavioral analyses of the inheritance of audiogenic seizures in the progeny of genetically epilepsy-prone and Sprague-Dawley rats.

doi:10.1016/0920-1211(88)90046-0

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Anatomical and behavioral analyses of the inheritance of audiogenic seizures in the progeny of genetically epilepsy-prone and Sprague-Dawley rats.

Epilepsy research - 1 Jan 2000

Ribak C E, Roberts R C, Byun M Y, Kim H L

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Our previous studies have shown an increase in the number of GABAergic and total neurons in the inferior colliculus (IC) of the genetically epilepsy-prone rat (GEPR-9) as compared to the non-seizing Sprague-Dawley (SD) rat. To determine whether an increase in neuron number in the IC is geneticall...

Topics

Acoustic Stimulation
Age Factors
Animals
Cell Count
Epilepsy
Female
Inferior Colliculi
Male
Neurons
Phenotype
Rats
Rats, Inbred Strains
Rats, Mutant Strains

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