The anticonvulsant effects of allopregnanolone against amygdala-kindled seizures in female rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 411, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 147-151

  Lonsdale, Deborah ^a   Burnham, W M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

5alpha dihydroprogesterone; Allopregnanolone; Complex partial seizures; Kindling; Progesterone

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; 5ALPHA PREGNANE 3,20 DIONE; BETA CYCLODEXTRIN; PROGESTERONE; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENCY; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; KINDLING; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RATING SCALE; REMISSION; SEIZURE;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; PREGNANOLONE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEIZURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33751431867     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.10.023     Document Type: Article

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