Effects of the novel anti-epileptic drug levetiracetam (50 and 100 mg/kg) on spike and wave discharges (SWDs) of WAG/Rij rats were studied. Levetiracetam decreased the incidence, average duration, total duration and peak frequency of the SWDs. There was no difference between the two doses. These results agree with results obtained in Genetic Absence Epilepsy Rat from Strasbourg (GAERS). Further...

This paper describes the input speciication language of the WAG Sentence Generation system. The input is described in terms of Halliday's (1978) three meaning components, ideational meaning (the propositional content to be expressed), inter-actional meaning (what the speaker intends the listener to do in making the utterance), and textual meaning (how the content is structured as a message , in...

Spontaneously occurring spike-wave discharges (SWDs) and serum concentrations of ovarian steroid hormones were investigated before, during and after pregnancy in WAG/Rij rats, a rat strain with genetically determined absence seizures. Eight groups of rats were included in the assays of progesterone and estradiol: rats at diestrus, at various days of pregnancy and at lactating days. The number o...

For the thick sandstone reservoir, due to gravity differentiation, water drive mainly uses bottom oil of while gas drives along top reservoir. Water-alternating (WAG) injection can effectively combine advantages flooding and injection, so that work in synergy, thus further expanding swept volume enhancing recovery. Over past half century, technology has been successfully applied more than 60 oi...