Modeling of Focal Seizures with Automatisms in Rats with Pendulum Movements
- Authors: Alekhina T.A.1, Kozhemyakina R.V.1
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Affiliations:
- Laboratory of Evolutional Genetics, Federal Research Center Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Issue: Vol 168, No 2 (2019)
- Pages: 300-303
- Section: Methods
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0007-4888/article/view/242424
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10517-019-04695-7
- ID: 242424
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Abstract
Phenotypical study was carried out in rats with pendulum movements. The animals exhibited a high level of abortive seizures in response to audiogenic stimuli and longer postictal catalepsy in comparison with those in Wistar population. Seizure severity positively correlated with the duration of poststimulus catalepsy (r=0.90). High aggressiveness towards humans, the absence of BP elevation in stress, lower body weights, and lower weights of the kidneys and spleen in PM rats are considered concomitant traits. Correlations were detected between startle-1 and BP in rats with pendulum movements (r=0.70) and between startle-10 and BP in narcotized Wistar rats (r=-0.0.71). The newly described signs in rats with pendulum movements did not contradict the signs of the focal seizure model with typical automatisms in humans.
About the authors
T. A. Alekhina
Laboratory of Evolutional Genetics, Federal Research Center Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Author for correspondence.
Email: alek@bionet.nsc.ru
Russian Federation, Novosibirsk
R. V. Kozhemyakina
Laboratory of Evolutional Genetics, Federal Research Center Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: alek@bionet.nsc.ru
Russian Federation, Novosibirsk