Epilepsy Research
Volume 31, Issue 1 , Pages 73-84 , June 1998

Recurrent spontaneous motor seizures after repeated low-dose systemic treatment with kainate: assessment of a rat model of temporal lobe epilepsy

  • Jennifer L Hellier
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  • Peter R Patrylo

      Affiliations

    • Present address: Section of Neurosurgery, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, TMP 4, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
    • ,
  • Paul S Buckmaster

      Affiliations

    • Present address: Department of Comparative Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, MSOB Building, X347, Stanford, CA 94305-5415, USA.
    • ,
  • F.Edward Dudek

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 970 4912942; fax: +1 970 4917907; e-mail: edudek@cvmbs.colostate.edu

Received 8 October 1997 ,Revised 4 February 1998 ,Accepted 4 March 1998.

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Epilepsy Research
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