Pentylenetetrazol and strychnine convulsions in brain weight selected mice

Seizure

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 135-138

  Bogdanov, Nickolay N ^a   Poletaeva, Inga I ^b   Popova, Natalia V ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGHER NERVOUS ACTIVITY AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Behavior genetics; Brain weight; Cortex architectonics; Experimental epilepsy; Mice; Pentylenetetrazol; Selection; Strychnine

Indexed keywords

NEUROTRANSMITTER; PENTETRAZOLE; STRYCHNINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; LATENT PERIOD; LETHALITY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SEIZURE SUSCEPTIBILITY;

EID: 0030986690     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1059-1311(97)80067-2     Document Type: Article

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