Effects of piracetam on pentylenetetrazol-kindling development, hippocampal potentiation phenomena and kindling-induced learning deficit

Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology

Volumn 360, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 413-420

  Rüthrich, Heinz ^a   Grecksch, Gisela ^a   Krug, Manfred ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chemical kindling; Field potentials; Hippocampus; Learning rat; Pentylenetetrazol; Piracetam; Potentiation

Indexed keywords

PIRACETAM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG USE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; KINDLING; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT;

ANIMALS; CONVULSANTS; DRUG INTERACTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; LEARNING; MALE; NOOTROPIC AGENTS; PENTYLENETETRAZOLE; PIRACETAM; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEIZURES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032718415     PISSN: 00281298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002109900086     Document Type: Article

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