Effect of TJ-960 (a Japanese herbal medicine) on free radical changes within an iron-induced focal epileptogenic region in rat brain measured by in vivo L-band electron spin resonance

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 205, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 189-192

  Komatsu, Makiko ^a   Hiramatsu, Midori ^a   Yokoyama, Hidekatsu ^a   Willmore, L James ^b  

^a Yamagata Technopolis Foundation   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; In vivo; Iron induced epileptogenic focus; Nitroxide radical; Rat head

Indexed keywords

FREE RADICAL; IRON; PLANT EXTRACT; SHOSAIKOTO GO KEISHIKASHAKUYAKUTO;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG THERAPY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; EPILEPSY; HERBAL MEDICINE; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PHARMACOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0029925373     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12412-5     Document Type: Article

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