The effects of kainic acid in rats with spontaneous recurrent seizures

General Pharmacology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 447-449

  Dernovšek, Mojca Z ^a   Sket, Dušan ^b  

^a Department of Psychiatry   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Kainic acid; Postictal refractoriness; Spontaneous recurrent seizures; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

KAINIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; HIPPOCAMPUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; RECURRENT DISEASE; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ANIMALS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; KAINIC ACID; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEIZURES;

EID: 0032169842     PISSN: 03063623     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-3623(98)00015-9     Document Type: Article

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