A GENETIC, PHYSIOLOGICAL, AND BIOCHEMICAL INVESTIGATION OF AUDIOGENIC-SEIZURES IN RATS

Citation
Lg. Romanova et al., A GENETIC, PHYSIOLOGICAL, AND BIOCHEMICAL INVESTIGATION OF AUDIOGENIC-SEIZURES IN RATS, Behavior genetics, 23(5), 1993, pp. 483-489
Citations number
24
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology,"Behavioral Sciences","Genetics & Heredity
Journal title
ISSN journal
00018244
Volume
23
Issue
5
Year of publication
1993
Pages
483 - 489
Database
ISI
SICI code
0001-8244(1993)23:5<483:AGPABI>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
Two kinds of audiogenic seizures are characteristic of the KM rat stra in, selected by Krushinsky and Molodkina in Moscow in the 1940s. This strain is now approximately 100% sound sensitive. Diallel crosses have demonstrated the polygenic nature of this behavior, with most alleles for seizures being recessive. Myoclonic seizures which develop after several sound exposures are a special form of kindling, involving the limbic system. Selection for low and high rates of myoclonic seizures was successful. Several unique, physiological features of the audiogen ic seizures in this rat strain are described, as well as data on RNA a nd protein synthesis inhibition effects on seizure formation.