Effects of lamotrigine on cortically-elicited phenomena in adult rats: Differences between acute application and late consequences of early postnatal administration

Brain Research

Volumn 1258, Issue , 2009, Pages 65-70

  Tsenov, Grygoryi ^a   Redkozubova, Olga ^a,c   Kubová, Hana ^a   Mareša, Pavel ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Early life administration cerebral cortex; Epileptic afterdischarge rat; Evoked potential; Lamotrigine

Indexed keywords

LAMOTRIGINE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; TRIAZINE DERIVATIVE;

AFTERDISCHARGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CLONIC SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EVOKED RESPONSE; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NEWBORN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTICONVULSANTS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TRIAZINES;

EID: 64849112143     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.12.054     Document Type: Article

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