Postnatal caffeine treatment affects differently two pentylenetetrazol seizure models in rats

Seizure

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 463-469

  Tchekalarova, Jana ^a,b   Kubová, Hana ^b   Mareš, Pavel ^b  

^a BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Caffeine; Development; Pentylenetetrazol; Rats; Spike and wave rhythm

Indexed keywords

CAFFEINE; PENTETRAZOLE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CLONIC SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPIKE WAVE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TREATMENT DURATION;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CAFFEINE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; PENTYLENETETRAZOLE; PERIODICITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; SEIZURES;

EID: 68049135729     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2009.04.002     Document Type: Article

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