Anticonvulsant activity of a metabotropic glutamate receptor 8 preferential agonist, (R,S)-4-phosphonophenylglycine

European Journal of Pharmacology

Volumn 383, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 23-27

  Chapman, Astrid G ^a   Nanan, Karl ^a   Yip, Ping ^a   Meldrum, Brian S ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

(DBA 2 mice); Anticonvulsant; Epilepsy; Glutamate receptor metabotropic; L Serine O phosphate; mglu8 receptor

Indexed keywords

4 PHOSPHONOPHENYLGLYCINE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; GLUTAMIC ACID; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN PROTECTION; CLONIC SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; INTRACEREBROVENTRICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TONIC SEIZURE;

ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; GLYCINE; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED DBA; PHOSPHOSERINE; RATS; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; SEIZURES; SOUND; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033592590     PISSN: 00142999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-2999(99)00615-9     Document Type: Article

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