Behavioural and anticonvulsant effects of Ca2+ channel toxins in DBA/2 mice

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 85-90

  Jackson, Helen C ^a,b   Scheideler, Mark A ^a  

^a NOVO NORDISK A S   (Denmark)

^b ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Agatoxin; Conotoxins; DBA 2 mice; Seizures; Shaking behaviour; Voltage sensitive calcium channels (VSCC)

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CONOTOXIN; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; SYNAPTOSOME; TONIC SEIZURE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED DBA; OMEGA-AGATOXIN IVA; OMEGA-CONOTOXIN GVIA; OMEGA-CONOTOXINS; PEPTIDES; SEIZURES; SPIDER VENOMS;

EID: 0029890288     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02246415     Document Type: Article

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