Anticonvulsant action of metabotropic glutamate receptor agonists in kindled amygdala of rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 204, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 41-44

  Suzuki, Katsuaki ^a   Mori, Norio ^a   Kittaka, Hajime ^a   Iwata, Yasuhide ^a   Yamada, Yasuhito ^a   Osonoe, Kouichi ^a   Niwa, Shin Ichi ^a  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

1S,3R 1 Aminocyclopentane 1,3 dicarboxylate; Amygdala; Kindling; L 2 Amino 4 phosphonobutyrate; Metabotropic glutamate receptor; Rat

Indexed keywords

1 AMINO 1,3 CYCLOPENTANEDICARBOXYLIC ACID; 2 AMINO 4 PHOSPHONOBUTYRIC ACID; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR AGONIST; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; INTRACEREBRAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KINDLING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE;

EID: 0030055829     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12311-9     Document Type: Article

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