Effects of chronic inhalation of volatile solvents, malnutrition and their interaction on seizures induced by pentylenetetrazole in rats

Addiction Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 453-457

  Palencia, Guadalupe ^a   Calvillo, Minerva ^a   Benita, Antonio ^a   Sotelo, Julio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC SOLVENT; PENTETRAZOLE; THINNER; VOLATILE AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; DRUG ABUSE; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; INHALATION; MALNUTRITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE;

EID: 0031690060     PISSN: 13556215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13556219871994     Document Type: Article

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