PUBLICATION
Animal models in epilepsy research: legacies and new directions
- Authors
- Grone, B.P., Baraban, S.C.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-150225-1
- Date
- 2015
- Source
- Nature Neuroscience 18: 339-343 (Other)
- Registered Authors
- Baraban, Scott, Grone, Brian
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Biomedical Research/history*
- Biomedical Research/trends*
- Disease Models, Animal*
- Epilepsy/etiology
- Epilepsy/therapy*
- History, 20th Century
- History, 21st Century
- Humans
- PubMed
- 25710835 Full text @ Nat. Neurosci.
Citation
Grone, B.P., Baraban, S.C. (2015) Animal models in epilepsy research: legacies and new directions. Nature Neuroscience. 18:339-343.
Abstract
Human epilepsies encompass a wide variety of clinical, behavioral and electrical manifestations. Correspondingly, studies of this disease in nonhuman animals have brought forward an equally wide array of animal models; that is, species and acute or chronic seizure induction protocols. Epilepsy research has a long history of comparative anatomical and physiological studies on a range of mostly mammalian species. Nonetheless, a relatively limited number of rodent models have emerged as the primary choices for most investigations. In many cases, these animal models are selected on the basis of convenience or tradition, although technical or experimental rationale does, and should, factor into these decisions. More complex mammalian brains and genetic model organisms including zebrafish have been studied less, but offer substantial advantages that are becoming widely recognized.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping