Agmatine reduces extracellular glutamate during pentylenetetrazole-induced seizures in rat brain: A potential mechanism for the anticonvulsive effects

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 390, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 129-133

  Feng, Yangzheng ^a   LeBlanc, Michael H ^a   Regunathan, Soundar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agmatine; Glutamate; Microdialysis; Pentylenetetrazole; Seizures

Indexed keywords

AGMATINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; PENTETRAZOLE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CANNULA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AGMATINE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG INTERACTIONS; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GLUTAMIC ACID; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; PENTYLENETETRAZOLE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEIZURES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 26944494168     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2005.08.008     Document Type: Article

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