Histidine enhances carbamazepine action against seizures and improves spatial memory deficits induced by chronic transauricular kindling in rats

Acta Pharmacologica Sinica

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1297-1302

  Li, Qing ^a,b   Jin, Chun Lei ^a   Xu, Li Sha ^a   Zhu Ge, Zheng Bin ^a   Yang, Li Xia ^a   Liu, Lu Ying ^a   Chen, Zhong ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Carbamazepine; Epilepsy; Histidine; Memory disorders; Transauricular kindled seizures

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CARBAMAZEPINE; HISTAMINE; HISTIDINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG POTENTIATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPILEPSY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; KINDLING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN; BRAIN STEM; CARBAMAZEPINE; DRUG SYNERGISM; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTAMINE; HISTIDINE; HYPOTHALAMUS; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEIZURES;

EID: 27744446969     PISSN: 16714083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-7254.2005.00220.x     Document Type: Article

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