Dose-dependent effect of carbamazepine on weanling rats submitted to subcutaneous injection of tityustoxin

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 433, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 170-173

  Guidine, Patrícia Alves Maia ^a   Assumpção, Gioconda ^a   Moraes Santos, Tasso ^a   Massensini, André Ricardo ^a   Chianca Jr , Deoclécio Alves ^b   Moraes, Márcio Flávio Dutra ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF OURO PRETO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Carbamazepine; Neuroprotection; Scorpion envenoming; Tityustoxin

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; INSECT VENOM; SCORPION VENOM; TITYUS TOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; INSECT STING; LUNG EDEMA; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCORPION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTICONVULSANTS; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; CARBAMAZEPINE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG INTERACTIONS; FEMALE; LUNG; NEUROTOXINS; PULMONARY EDEMA; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SCORPION VENOMS; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; SODIUM CHANNELS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEANING;

EID: 40849130109     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.12.059     Document Type: Article

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