Article
A genetic, physiological, and biochemical investigation of audiogenic seizures in rats.
Behavior genetics - 1 Sept 1993
Romanova L G, Zorina Z A, Korochkin L I
Abstract excerpt
Two kinds of audiogenic seizures are characteristic of the KM rat strain, selected by Krushinsky and Molodkina in Moscow in the 1940s. This strain is now approximately 100% sound sensitive. Diallel crosses have demonstrated the polygenic nature of this behavior, with most alleles for seizures bei...
Topics
- Acoustic Stimulation
- Animals
- Crosses, Genetic
- Epilepsies, Myoclonic
- Female
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Kindling, Neurologic
- Limbic System
- Male
- Nerve Tissue Proteins
- Phenotype
- RNA
- Rats