Searching across hundreds of databases

Our searching services are busy right now. Please try again later

  • Register
X
Forgot Password

If you have forgotten your password you can enter your email here and get a temporary password sent to your email.

X

Leaving Community

Are you sure you want to leave this community? Leaving the community will revoke any permissions you have been granted in this community.

No
Yes

Traumatic brain injury accelerates kindling epileptogenesis in rats.

M Eslami | E Ghanbari | M Sayyah | F Etemadi | S Choopani | M Soleimani | Z Amiri | M Hadjighassem
Neurological research | 2016 Mar

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a well-known cause of symptomatic epilepsy. In animal models of post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE), progression of trauma to epilepsy takes several weeks to months. Although this long process is similar to clinical PTE, it is costly and laborious. We used a combination of TBI and kindling as an accelerated animal model to develop epilepsy in much shorter period compared to that occurring in PTE.

Pubmed ID: 26315855

Animal Information

  • Species: rat
  • Strain: Wistar
  • Age (weeks): No age reported
  • Weight (grams): 250 - 280
  • Assessments

    Depth of injured tissue

    TBI model parameters

  • Impact Depth (mm): 2
  • Impact Duration (ms): 150
  • Impact Velocity (m/s): 4.5
  • Impactor Tip: tip diameter - 5  mm, tip shape - round
  • Device Name

    Model AMS 201

    Associated Datasets

    No information available

    Associated Protocols

    No information available