Group I metabotropic glutamate receptors interfere in different ways with pentylenetetrazole seizures, kindling, and kindling-related learning deficits

Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology

Volumn 370, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 26-34

  Nagaraja, Raghavendra Y ^a   Grecksch, Gisela ^a   Reymann, Klaus G ^b   Schroeder, Helmut ^a   Becker, Axel ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Kindling; Learning; LY 367385; Metabotropic glutamate receptors; MPEP; Pentyenetetrazol; Rats

Indexed keywords

2 METHYL 6 (PHENYLETHYNYL)PYRIDINE; 4 CARBOXY 2 METHYLPHENYLGLYCINE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; GLUTAMIC ACID; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 1; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; PENTETRAZOLE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG RESPONSE; KINDLING; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; RECEPTOR INTRINSIC ACTIVITY; SEIZURE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 4344707853     PISSN: 00281298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00210-004-0942-5     Document Type: Article

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