Long-term levetiracetam treatment affects reproductive endocrine function in female Wistar rats

Seizure

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 203-209

  Svalheim, Sigrid ^a   Taubøll, Erik ^a,b   Surdova, Kristina ^a   Ormel, Lasse ^a   Dahl, Ellen ^c   Aleksandersen, Mona ^c   McNeilly, Alan ^d   Gjerstad, Leif ^a,b   Ropstad, Erik ^c  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hormones; Levetiracetam; Ovary morphology; Rats

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ETIRACETAM; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; LONG TERM CARE; NONHUMAN; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; STEROID RELEASE;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; CORPUS LUTEUM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; FEMALE; GONADOTROPINS, PITUITARY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OVARY; PIRACETAM; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 38949191634     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2007.11.018     Document Type: Article

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