Effectiveness of vigabatrin against focally evoked pilocarpine-induced seizures and concomitant changes in extracellular hippocampal and cerebellar glutamate,γ-aminobutyric acid and dopamine levels, a microdialysis- electrocorticography study in freely moving rats

Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Volumn 283, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1239-1248

  Smolders, Ilse ^a,b   Khan, Ghous M ^a   Lindekens, Hilde ^a   Prikken, Steven ^a   Marvin, Craig A ^a   Manil, Jacqueline ^a   Ebinger, Guy ^a   Michotte, Yvette ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b FUND FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; DOPAMINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; MUSCARINIC AGENT; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR; PILOCARPINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; VIGABATRIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG EFFICACY; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTRACEREBRAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; CEREBELLUM; DOPAMINE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; PILOCARPINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; VIGABATRIN;

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