Diazepam terminates brief but not prolonged seizures in young, naïve rats

Epilepsia

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1109-1112

  Goodkin, Howard P ^a,b   Liu, Xianzeng ^a   Holmes, Gregory L ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Benzodiazepine; Development; GABA; Pilocarpine

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; DIAZEPAM; LITHIUM; PILOCARPINE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE; AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG EFFICACY; EPILEPTIC STATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DIAZEPAM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; LITHIUM; MALE; PILOCARPINE; RATS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; STATUS EPILEPTICUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0042572225     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1528-1157.2003.62402.x     Document Type: Article

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