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. 2006 Apr 5;12(2):240–256. doi: 10.1111/j.1750-3639.2002.tb00439.x

Animal Models of Limbic Epilepsies: What Can They Tell Us?

Douglas A Coulter 1,✉, Dan C McIntyre 2, Wolfgang Löscher 3
PMCID: PMC2441870  NIHMSID: NIHMS55269  PMID: 11958378

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