Anticonvulsant activities of new 1,4-dihydropyridine derivatives containing 4-nitroimidazolyl substituents

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Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 81-86

  Shafiee, Abbas ^a   Rastkari, Noushin ^a   Sharifzadeh, Mohammad ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Anticonvulsion; Calcium Channel blockers; Dihydropyridines; Nitroimidazole

Indexed keywords

1 METHYL 4 NITRO 5 IMIDAZOLYL DERIVATIVE; 1,4 DIHYDROPYRIDINE DERIVATIVE; 4 NITROIMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; NIFEDIPINE; NIFEDIPINE DERIVATIVE; PENTETRAZOLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG RESEARCH; DRUG STRUCTURE; EVALUATION; LATENT PERIOD; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SEIZURE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

EID: 3342920853     PISSN: 15608115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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