Anticonvulsive effect of swim stress in mice

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 879-886

  Peričić, Danka ^a   Švob, Dubravka ^a   Jazvinšćak, Maja ^a   Mirković, Kety ^a  

^a RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Aminoglutethimide; Convulsions; Corticosterone; Finasteride; Kainic acid; Pentylenetetrazole; Picrotoxin; Swim stress; t 3H butylbicycloorthobenzoate ( 3H TBOB) binding

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLUTETHIMIDE; CONVULSANT AGENT; CORTICOSTERONE; FINASTERIDE; KAINIC ACID; PENTETRAZOLE; PICROTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; SWIMMING;

AMINOGLUTETHIMIDE; ANIMALS; BICYCLO COMPOUNDS, HETEROCYCLIC; CONVULSANTS; ENZYME INHIBITORS; EPILEPSIES, MYOCLONIC; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; FINASTERIDE; KAINIC ACID; LIGANDS; MALE; MEMBRANES; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROSENCEPHALON; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SEIZURES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWIMMING; TESTOSTERONE 5-ALPHA-REDUCTASE;

EID: 0342646952     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-3057(00)00267-7     Document Type: Article

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