Repeated low-dose treatment of rats with pilocarpine: low mortality but high proportion of rats developing epilepsy

Epilepsy Research - Tập 46 Số 2 - Trang 111-119 - 2001
Maike Glien1, Claudia Brandt1, Heidrun Potschka1, Henning Voigt1, Ulrich Ebert1, Wolfgang Löscher1
1Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmacy, School of Veterinary Medicine, Bünteweg 17, D-30559 Hannover, Germany

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