Modulation of pentylenetetrazol-induced seizure activity by branched- chain amino acids and α-ketoisocaproate

Brain Research

Volumn 815, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 400-404

  Dufour, Franck ^a   Nalecz, Katarzyna A ^b   Nalecz, Maciej J ^b   Nehlig, Astrid ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Absence seizure; Branched chain amino acid; Branched chain ketoacid; Epilepsy; Tonic clonic seizure

Indexed keywords

2 OXOISOCAPROIC ACID; AMINO ACID MIXTURE; GLUTAMIC ACID; ION CHANNEL; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; PENTETRAZOLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VAMINE;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RELEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; SPIKE WAVE;

AMINO ACIDS, BRANCHED-CHAIN; ANIMALS; CAPROATES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; KETO ACIDS; MALE; PENTYLENETETRAZOLE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; SEIZURES;

EID: 0033537295     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)01188-3     Document Type: Article

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