Tolerance to the anticonvulsant activity of midazolam and allopregnanolone in a model of picrotoxin seizures

European Journal of Pharmacology

Volumn 425, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 121-127

  Czlonkowska, Agnieszka I ^a   Krzacik, Pawel ^a   Sienkiewicz Jarosz, Halina ^b   Siemiatkowski, Marek ^b   Szyndler, Janusz ^a   Maciejak, Piotr ^b   Bidziński, Andrzej ^b   Planik, Adam ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

(Mouse); Allopregnanolone; Dopamine turnover rate; Intra cerebroventricular injection; Midazolam; Picrotoxin induced seizure; Striatum

Indexed keywords

3 O METHYLDOPAMINE; 3,4 DIHYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; 3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; ALDOSTERONE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; DOPAMINE; ESTRADIOL; HOMOVANILLIC ACID; MIDAZOLAM; NEUROSTEROID; PICROTOXIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CLONIC SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DATA ANALYSIS; DOPAMINE METABOLISM; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG REEXPOSURE; DRUG TOLERANCE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP INDUCTION; TURNOVER TIME;

ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOPAMINE; DRUG COMBINATIONS; DRUG TOLERANCE; MALE; MICE; MIDAZOLAM; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PICROTOXIN; PREGNANOLONE; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SEIZURES;

EID: 0035839188     PISSN: 00142999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-2999(01)01183-9     Document Type: Article

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