Indispensable amine acid deficiency and increased seizure susceptibility in rats

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 271, Issue 1 40-1, 1996, Pages

  Gietzen, Dorothy W ^a   Dixon, Kimberly D ^a   Truong, Ban G ^a   Jones, Andrew C ^a   Barrett, Jennifer A ^a   Washburn, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

amino acid imbalance; anterior piriform cortex; bicuculline; epilepsy; histidine; isoleucine; pentylenetetrazole; rat; threonine

Indexed keywords

HISTIDINE; ISOLEUCINE; THREONINE; AMINO ACID; BICUCULLINE; PENTETRAZOLE;

AMINO ACID DEFICIENCY; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTAKE; PYRIFORM CORTEX; RAT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEIZURE; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; DRUG EFFECT; INJECTION; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BICUCULLINE; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; HISTIDINE; INJECTIONS; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; ISOLEUCINE; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; PENTYLENETETRAZOLE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEIZURES; THREONINE;

EID: 0029792266     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1996.271.1.r18     Document Type: Article

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