High pressure neurologic syndrome type 2 seizure in mice.

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a110052

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High pressure neurologic syndrome type 2 seizure in mice.

The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000

McCall R D, Frierson D

Abstract excerpt

Progressive compression in helium/oxygen (heliox) atmospheres elicits in mice and many other vertebrates tested a complex series of effects known as the high pressure neurologic syndrome (HPNS). The most dramatic behavioral manifestations of the syndrome are two successive and distinct convulsive...

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Animals
Atmospheric Pressure
Barotrauma
Chromosome Mapping
Female
Genes
Genetic Variation
Helium
Male
Mice
Mice, Inbred BALB C
Mice, Inbred C57BL
Oxygen
Probability
Seizures

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