A simple device for recording seizure activity in rats

Methods and Findings in Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 47-51

  Malhotra, Jatinder ^a   Velpandian, T ^a   Gupta, Yogendra K ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

chemical kindling; diazepam; pentylenetetrazole; seizure; sodium valproate

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; DIAZEPAM; PENTETRAZOLE; VALPROIC ACID;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INSTRUMENT; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SEIZURE; TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEIZURES;

EID: 0030907401     PISSN: 03790355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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