Evaluation of the anticonvulsant activities of rosa damascena on the PTZ induced seizures in wistar rats

Journal of Biological Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 426-430

  Kheirabadi, Masoumeh ^a   Moghimi, Ali ^a   Rakhshande, Hassan ^b   Rassouli, Morteza Behnam ^a  

^a FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

^b MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Essential; PTZ pentylen tetrazol; Rosa damascena; Seizure

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ESSENTIAL OIL; FLAVONOID; PENTETRAZOLE; PLANT EXTRACT; ROSA DAMASCENA EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; ROSA DAMASCENA; ROSE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; ROSA X DAMASCENA;

EID: 52349106346     PISSN: 17273048     EISSN: 18125719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/jbs.2008.426.430     Document Type: Article

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