Phenytoin's effect on the spread of seizure activity in the amygdala kindling model

Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology

Volumn 356, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 341-347

  Ebert, Ulrich ^a   Cramer, Sybille ^a   Löscher, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Complex partial seizure; Diphenylhydantoin; Epileptic focus; Limbic system; Rat; Threshold

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; PHENYTOIN;

AFTERDISCHARGE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HISTOLOGY; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KINDLING; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SEIZURE; SEIZURE THRESHOLD;

ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; MALE; PHENYTOIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0030929440     PISSN: 00281298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00005060     Document Type: Article

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