Characteristics of flurothyl-induced seizures and the effect of antiepileptic drugs on flurothyl-induced seizures in Mongolian gerbils

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 141-147

  Araki, Hiroaki ^a   Kobayashi, Yuri ^a   Hashimoto, Yasuhiko ^a   Futagami, Koujiro ^a   Kawasaki, Hiromu ^b   Gomita, Yutaka ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electroencephalogram; Flurothyl; GABA; Mongolian gerbils; Tonic extension

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLONAZEPAM; DIAZEPAM; ETHOSUXIMIDE; FLUROTHYL; PHENYTOIN; VALPROIC ACID; ZONISAMIDE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLONIC SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; GERBIL; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SPIKE WAVE; TONIC SEIZURE;

ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONVULSANTS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; FLUROTHYL; GERBILLINAE; MALE; SEIZURES;

ANIMALIA; GERBILLINAE; MERIONES UNGUICULATUS;

EID: 0036887488     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-3057(02)00965-6     Document Type: Article

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