Prolonged exposure to levetiracetam reveals a presynaptic effect on neurotransmission

Epilepsia

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1861-1869

  Yang, Xiao Feng ^a   Weisenfeld, Aryan ^a   Rothman, Steven M ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

2 Photon microscope; Anticonvulsants; Epilepsy; FM1 43; Levetiracetam

Indexed keywords

ETIRACETAM; NEUROTRANSMITTER; VESICULAR NEUROTRANSMITTER TRANSPORTER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; FLUORESCENCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NERVE ENDING; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PHOTON; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; RAT; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PIRACETAM; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; PYRIDINIUM COMPOUNDS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, PRESYNAPTIC; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 35148820640     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2006.01132.x     Document Type: Article

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