Prolonged exposure to lead lowers the threshold of pentylenetetrazole- induced seizures in rats

Epilepsia

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1599-1602

  Arrieta, Oscar ^a,b,c   Palencia, Guadalupe ^a   García Arenas, Guadalupe ^a   Morales Espinosa, Daniela ^c   Hernández Pedro, Norma ^b   Sotelo, Julio ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CANCEROLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Lead toxicity; Pentylenetetrazole; Seizures

Indexed keywords

LEAD; LEAD ACETATE; PENTETRAZOLE;

AIR POLLUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE THRESHOLD; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; URBAN AREA; AIR POLLUTANT; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRINKING; SEIZURE; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION; WATER POLLUTANT; WISTAR RAT;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRINKING; LEAD; MALE; PENTYLENETETRAZOLE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEIZURES; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; URBAN POPULATION; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 27244456166     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2005.00267.x     Document Type: Article

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