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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 being recessive. Myoclonic seizures which develop after several sound exposures are a special form of kindling, involving...
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