Does pilocarpine-induced epilepsy in adult rats require status epilepticus?

Pilocarpine-induced seizures in rats provide a widely animal model of temporal lobe epilepsy. Some evidences reported in the literature suggest that at least 1 h of status epilepticus (SE) is required to produce subsequent chronic phase, due to the SE-related acute neuronal damage. However, recent d...

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Main Authors: Graciela Navarro Mora, Placido Bramanti, Francesco Osculati, Asmaa Chakir, Elena Nicolato, Pasquina Marzola, Andrea Sbarbati, Paolo Francesco Fabene
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2685457?pdf=render