Antiepileptic effects of 20-hydroxyecdysone on convulsive seizures in spontaneously epileptic rats

Japanese Journal of Pharmacology

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 331-335

  Hanaya, Ryosuke ^a   Sasa, Masashi ^a   Ishihara, Kumatoshi ^a   Akimitsu, Tomohide ^a   Iida, Koji ^a   Amano, Taku ^a   Serikawa, Tadao ^b   Arita, Kazunori ^a   Kurisu, Kaoru ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

20 hydroxyecdysone; Antiepileptic effect; Spontaneously epileptic rat (SER)

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; BICUCULLINE; ECDYSTERONE;

ABSENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG STRUCTURE; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RAT; SEIZURE; TONIC SEIZURE;

EID: 0030865361     PISSN: 00215198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1254/jjp.74.331     Document Type: Article

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