Lamotrigine inhibits extracellular glutamate accumulation during transient global cerebral ischemia in rabbits

Anesthesiology

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 459-463

  Bacher, Andreas ^b   Zornow, Mark H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

amino acid; cerebral; lamotrigine; rabbit; excitatory; glutamate; ischemia

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; LAMOTRIGINE; SODIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DRUG EFFECT; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; RABBIT; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

ANIMALS; GLUTAMIC ACID; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; RABBITS; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; TRIAZINES;

EID: 0031056868     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-199702000-00021     Document Type: Article

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