A new actimetry-based test of photic sensitization in a murine photosensitive magnesium depletion model

Methods and Findings in Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 681-684

  Bac, P ^a,b   Pages, Nicole ^a,c   Maurois, P ^a,b   German Fattal, M ^b   Durlach, J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b CENTRE CHIRURGICAL MARIE LANNELONGUE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Actimetry; Generalization; Habituation; Light stimulation; Magnesium depletion; Mouse; Photosensitive syndromes; Potentiation; Sensitization; Stroboscope; Visual stimulation

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM;

ACTIMETRY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; DRUG EFFECT; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HEADACHE; LEARNING; LIGHT INTENSITY; MAGNESIUM DEPLETION; MOUSE; MYALGIA; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSENSITIVITY DISORDER; PHOTOSTIMULATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEIZURE; SENSITIZATION; SLEEP DISORDER; SPRING; STROBOSCOPE; SUMMER; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; LIGHT; MAGNESIUM DEFICIENCY; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTOSENSITIVITY DISORDERS;

EID: 33144469059     PISSN: 03790355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1358/mf.2005.27.10.948880     Document Type: Article

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