Antiseizure activity of insulin: Insulin inhibits pentylenetetrazole, penicillin and kainic acid-induced seizures in rats

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 185-190

  Uysal, Hilmi ^a   Kuli, Pervin ^a   Çaǧlar, Semra ^b   Inan, Levent E ^a   Akarsu, Eyüp S ^b   Palaoǧlu, Özden ^b   Ayhan, I Hakki ^b  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Turkey)

^b ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

insulin; kainic acid; ouabain; penicillin; pentylenetetrazole; rat; seizure

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); HUMAN INSULIN; INSULIN; KAINIC ACID; OUABAIN; PENICILLIN G; PENTETRAZOLE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; INTRACEREBROVENTRICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MORTALITY; MYOCLONUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CONVULSANTS; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; GLUCOSE; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INSULIN; KAINIC ACID; MALE; OUABAIN; PENICILLINS; PENTYLENETETRAZOLE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; SEIZURES;

EID: 0030296655     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-1211(96)00078-2     Document Type: Article

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