Changes in the concentration of amino acids in the hippocampus of pentylenetetrazole-kindled rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 439, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 245-249

  Szyndler, Janusz ^a   Maciejak, Piotr ^a,b   Turzyńska, Danuta ^b   Sobolewska, Alicja ^b   Lehner, Małgorzata ^b   Taracha, Ewa ^b   Walkowiak, Jerzy ^b   Skórzewska, Anna ^b   Wisłowska Stanek, Aleksandra ^a   Hamed, Adam ^a   Bidziński, Andrzej ^b   Płaźnik, Adam ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

GABA; Glutamate; Hippocampus; Kindling; Microdialysis; Pentylenetatrazol; Rats; Taurine

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ALANINE; AMINO ACID; ARGININE; ASPARTIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; GLYCINE; HISTIDINE; PENTETRAZOLE; TAURINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; STEADY STATE;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; MALE; PENTYLENETETRAZOLE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEIZURES;

EID: 44649191673     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.05.002     Document Type: Article

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