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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Epilepsy Res. 2011 Mar 22;95(1-2):9–19. doi: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2011.01.019

Table 1.

Survival through P17 after seizures on P15 and prenatal exposure on G15

prenatal exposure G15 seizure induction on P15
flurothyl kainic acid 3.5 mg/kg kainic acid 5.0 mg/kg
saline 25/25 29/30 17/33
betamethasone 2× 0.4 mg/kg 7/7 21/24 5/8
hydrocortisone 2× 10 mg/kg 23/23 7/14 13/25
statistics: χ2, p n/a 15.7; 0.0004* 0.329; 0.8483

First number in the field marks the number of rats surviving on P17 while the second number indicates the number of rats tested in the particular seizure test on P15. All rats experiencing fluorthyl seizures survived. On the other hand, prenatal hydrocortisone treatment significantly decreased survival rate after seizures induced by 3.5 mg/kg of kainic acid i.p.