Electroencephalographic evidence of brainstem recruitment during scorpion envenomation

NeuroToxicology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 90-96

  Guidine, Patrícia Alves Maia ^a   Mesquita, Michel Bernanos Soares ^b   Moraes Santos, Tasso ^a   Massensini, André Ricardo ^a   Moraes, Márcio Flávio Dutra ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbamazepine; Neuroprotection; Scorpion envenomation; Tityustoxin; Weanling rats

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; TITYUS TOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BRAIN STEM; CARDIOVASCULAR AUTOREGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECG ABNORMALITY; EEG ABNORMALITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENVENOMATION; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; SURVIVAL TIME;

ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN STEM; CARBAMAZEPINE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SCORPION VENOMS; SOLITARY NUCLEUS;

RATTUS; SCORPIONES; TITYUS SERRULATUS;

EID: 58749112163     PISSN: 0161813X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuro.2008.10.001     Document Type: Article

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