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Then we compared short-term and long-term effects of SE with different AED treatments by examining SE-associated mortality and behavioral spontaneous recurrent seizures (SRSs) and by using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and immunohistochemistry to evaluate pathological and cellular alterations of mice in the different treatment groups. We found that i.p. injections of diazepam (5 mg\/kg), midazolam (10 mg\/kg), and pentobarbital (37.5 mg\/kg) were able to terminate acute pilocarpine-SE effectively, while pentobarbital treatment showed less neuroprotective action against lethality in the short phase following SE. Long-term evaluation following SE revealed that SE treated with midazolam had resulted in relatively less behavioral SRS, less hippocampal atrophy, and milder neuronal loss and gliosis. Our data revealed an obvious advantage of midazolam vs. diazepam or pentobarbital in protecting the brain from epileptogenesis. 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