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Spike-wave seizures, slow-wave sleep EEG and morphology of substantia nigra pars compacta in WAG/Rij rats with genetic predisposition to absence epilepsy.
Brain research bulletin - 1 Sept 2021
Sitnikova Evgenia, Rutskova Elizaveta M, Tsvetaeva Daria, Raevsky Vladimir V
Abstract excerpt
Spike-wave discharges (SWDs) are EEG hallmarks of absence epilepsy, and they spontaneously appear in adult WAG/Rij rats. SWDs are known to be vigilance-dependent and are modulated by monoaminergic mechanisms. It is also known that loss of neurons in the center of the nigrostriatal dopamine system, substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc), is associated with a variety of sleep disorders. We hypothesized that a...
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