(-)-Clausenamide potentiates synaptic transmission in the dentate gyrus of rats

Chirality

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 239-244

  Xu, Lin ^a   Liu, Shao Lin ^a,b   Zhang, Jun Tian ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium; Enantiomer; Long term potentiation; Nootropic; Phosphatase

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; CALCINEURIN; CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALPAIN; CLAUSENAMIDE; NIMODIPINE; NOOTROPIC AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHINA; CHIRALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENTIATION; ENANTIOMER; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STIMULATION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; CALCINEURIN; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CALPAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DENTATE GYRUS; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LACTAMS; LIGNANS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STEREOISOMERISM; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 18144403508     PISSN: 08990042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chir.20150     Document Type: Article

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