Models of seizures and epilepsy /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Elsevier Academic,
[2006]
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Table of Contents:
- What should be modeled
- Single nerve cells acutely dissociated from animal and human brains for studies of epilepsy
- Cell culture models for studying epilepsy
- An overview of In vitro seizure models in acute and organotypic slices
- The use of brain slice cultures for the study of epilepsy
- Hippocampal slices : designing and interpreting studies in epilepsy research
- Thalamic, thalamocortical and corticocortical models of epilepsy with an emphasis on absence seizures
- Studying epilepsy in the human brain in vitro
- In vitro isolated guinea pig brain
- Pharmacologic models of generalized absence seizures in rodents
- Models of chemically-induced acute seizures
- Electrical stimulation-induced models of seizures
- Alcohol withdrawl seizures
- Alumina gel injection models of epilepsy in monkeys
- Modeling epilepsy and seizures in developing zebrafish larvae
- Transgenic and gene replacement models of epilepsy : targeting ion channel and neurotransmission pathways in mice
- Spontaneous epileptic mutations in the mouse
- Genetic models of absence epilepsy in the rat
- Models with spontaneous seizures and developmental disruption of genetic etiology
- Mammalian models of genetic epilepsy characterized by sensory-evoked seizures and generalized seizure susceptibility
- Inherited epilepsy in Mongolian gerbils
- The cortical freeze lesion model
- MAM and other "lesion" models for developmental epilepsy
- In utero irradiation as a model of corical dysplasia
- Modeling hypoxia-induced seizures and hypoxic encephalopathy in the neonatal period
- Complex febrile seizures - an experimental model in immature rodents
- Repetitive seizures in the immature brain
- The kindling phenomenon
- Kindling kittens and cats
- Electrical kindling in developing rats
- Chemical kindling
- Kindling, spontaneous seizures and the consequences of epilepsy : more that a model
- Tetanus toxin model of focal epilepsy
- Kainate-induced status epilepticus : a chronic model of acquired epilepsy
- The pilocarpine model of seizures
- Status epilepticus : electrical stimulation models
- Posttraumatic epilepsy induced by lateral fluid-percussion brain injury in rats
- Chronic partial cortical isolation
- Head trauma : hemorrhage-iron deposition
- Stroke
- Models available for infection-induced seizures
- Brain tumour and epilepsy : a new neurophysiologic neuropathologic ex vivo in vitro model
- An animal model of Rasmussen's encephalitis
- Therapeutic assays for the indentifical and characterization of antiepileptic and antiepileptogenic drugs
- Animal models of drug-refractory epilepsy
- Monitoring for seizures in rodents
- Imaging approaches in small animal models
- Behavioral characterization of seizures in rats
- Behavioral and cognitive testing procedures in animal models of epilepsy
- Morphologyic approaches to the characterization of epilepsy models
- Animal model development based on the human epilepsies : which causes and syndromes should be modeled
- What good are animal models