Models of seizures and epilepsy /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Pitkänen, Asla, Schwartzkroin, P. A. (Philip A.), Moshé, Solomon L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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