Anticonvulsant effects of linolenic acid are unrelated to brain phospholipid cell membrane compositions

Epilepsia

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 65-71

  Porta, Natacha ^a,b   Bourgois, Béatrice ^b   Galabert, Claude ^c   Lecointe, Cécile ^a,b   Cappy, Pierre ^a,b   Bordet, Régis ^b   Vallée, Louis ^a,b   Auvin, Stéphane ^a,b  

^a LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

^c HOSPICES CIVILS DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Antiepileptic drugs; Epilepsy; Ketogenic diet; Pentylenetetrazol; Polyunsaturated fatty acids; Rat

Indexed keywords

ARACHIDONIC ACID; FATTY ACID; ICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID; KETOCAL; LINOLENIC ACID; PENTETRAZOLE; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE; PHOSPHOLIPID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; CELL MEMBRANE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; EPILEPSY; FATTY ACID BLOOD LEVEL; KETOGENIC DIET; LIPID BRAIN LEVEL; LIPID COMPOSITION; MALE; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHOSPHOLIPID MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 58149250333     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01723.x     Document Type: Article

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