Effect of various calcium channel blockers on three different models of limbic seizures in rats

Neuropharmacology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1988, Pages 451-458

  Vezzani, A ^a   Wu, H Q ^a   Stasi, M A ^a   Angelico, P ^a   Samanin, R ^a  

^a MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

Author keywords

hippocampal kindling; kainic acid; limbic seizures; quinolinic acid; rats; voltage dependent calcium channel blockers

Indexed keywords

FLUNARIZINE; KAINIC ACID; QUINOLINIC ACID; VERAPAMIL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; KINDLING; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMAL; ANTICONVULSANTS; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; KINDLING (NEUROLOGY); LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; QUINOLINIC ACIDS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS;

EID: 0023899680     PISSN: 00283908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0028-3908(88)90126-8     Document Type: Article

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