Is ACTH a key to understanding anticonvulsant action?

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 82-89

  O'Regan, M E ^a   Brown, J K ^a  

^a ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CORTICOTROPIN;

ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG MECHANISM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 0031916157     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.1998.tb15366.x     Document Type: Article

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