Antiepileptic drug cellular mechanisms of action: Where does lamotrigine fit in?

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 12, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1997, Pages

  Coulter, Douglas A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLONAZEPAM; ETHOSUXIMIDE; LAMOTRIGINE; MESUXIMIDE; PHENYTOIN; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; TIAGABINE; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN;

ABSENCE; ARTICLE; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; EPILEPSY; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

EID: 0031414052     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0883073897012001031     Document Type: Article

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