Chronically administered guanosine is anticonvulsant, amnesic and anxiolytic in mice

Brain Research

Volumn 977, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 97-102

  Vinadé, Elsa Regina ^a   Schmidt, André Prato ^a   Frizzo, Marcos Emílio Santos ^a   Izquierdo, Ivan ^a   Elisabetsky, Elaine ^a   Souza, Diogo Onofre ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Adenosine; Anxiety; Excitotoxicity; Glutamate; Guanosine; Memory; Seizure; Dendrotoxin

Indexed keywords

DENDROTOXIN; GUANOSINE;

AMNESIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BODY WEIGHT; DRUG TARGETING; EPILEPSY; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; LETHALITY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOUSE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; SEIZURE; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY;

EID: 0038697969     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(03)02769-0     Document Type: Article

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