Journal of the Neurological Sciences
Volume 292, Issue 1 , Pages 16-23 , 15 May 2010

Increased hippocampal T2 in a rat model of pentylenetetrazol-induced kindling correlates with seizure scores

  • Fang Fang

      Affiliations

    • State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics & Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
    • Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
    • ,
  • Hao Lei

      Affiliations

    • State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics & Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 30# Xiaohongshan, Wuhan, Hubei, P. R. China 430071. Tel.: +86 27 87198542; fax: +86 27 87199291.

Received 27 September 2009 ,Revised 11 January 2010 ,Accepted 12 February 2010.

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PII: S0022-510X(10)00090-0

doi: 10.1016/j.jns.2010.02.014

Journal of the Neurological Sciences
Volume 292, Issue 1 , Pages 16-23 , 15 May 2010

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