The effect of pentylenetetrazole-kindling on the extracellular glutamate and taurine levels in the frontal cortex of rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 282, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 117-119

  Li, Zhong Qi ^a,b   Yamamoto, Yumiko ^a   Morimoto, Tomoko ^a   Ono, Jiro ^b   Okada, Shintaro ^b   Yamatodani, Atsushi ^a  

^a Osaka University   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Glutamate; Kindling; Microdialysis; Pentylenetetrazole; Seizure

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; PENTETRAZOLE; TAURINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; EPILEPSY; FRONTAL CORTEX; KINDLING; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE;

ANIMALS; CONVULSANTS; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FRONTAL LOBE; GLUTAMIC ACID; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; MALE; PENTYLENETETRAZOLE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEIZURES; TAURINE;

EID: 0034678092     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)00838-7     Document Type: Article

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