Antiepileptic drugs and pregnancy: Brain malformations in rats prenatally exposed to lamotrigine, vigabatrin and valproate;Médicaments antiépileptiques et grossesse: Malformations cérébrales mises en évidence chez le rat après exposition prénatale à la lamotrigine, au vigabatrin et au valproate

Epilepsies

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 27-32

  Manent, Jean Bernard ^a   Ben Ari, Yehezkel ^a   Represa, Alfonso ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Antiepileptic drug; Development; Epilepsy; Neuronal migration; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; CARBAMAZEPINE; DIAZEPAM; ETHOSUXIMIDE; ETIRACETAM; FELBAMATE; LAMOTRIGINE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; OXCARBAZEPINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PREGABALIN; TIAGABINE; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN; ZONISAMIDE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN MALFORMATION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPILEPSY; FETUS OUTCOME; HIPPOCAMPUS; INCIDENCE; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; TERATOGENICITY;

EID: 41549091794     PISSN: 11496576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1684/epi.2008.0136     Document Type: Article

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