Anticonvulsant properties of 1,4-benzodiazepine derivatives in amygdaloid-kindled seizures and their chemical structure-related anticonvulsant action

Pharmacology

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 233-241

  Fukinaga, Masafumi ^a   Ishizawa, Keisuke ^a   Kamei, Chiaki ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

1,4 Benzodiazepines; Amygdala; Kindling; Prophylactic effect; Structure activity relationships

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CLONAZEPAM; DIAZEPAM; FLUDIAZEPAM; FLUNITRAZEPAM; FLURAZEPAM; FLUTOPRAZEPAM; LORAZEPAM; LORMETAZEPAM; MEDAZEPAM; NIMETAZEPAM; NITRAZEPAM; OXAZEPAM; PENTOBARBITAL; PRAZEPAM;

AFTERDISCHARGE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; DRUG STRUCTURE; KINDLING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; ANTICONVULSANTS; BENZODIAZEPINES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEIZURES; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0031690854     PISSN: 00317012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000028247     Document Type: Article

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