Curcumin inhibits amygdaloid kindled seizures in rats

Chinese Medical Journal

Volumn 122, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1435-1438

  Du, Peng ^a   Li, Xin ^a   Lin, Hao Jie ^a   Peng, Wei Feng ^a   Liu, Jian Ying ^a   Ma, Yu ^a   Fan, Wei ^a   Wang, Xin ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Curcumin; Epileptogenesis; Kindling; Neurologic

Indexed keywords

CURCUMIN;

AFTERDISCHARGE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; KINDLING; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SEIZURE;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; CURCUMIN; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEIZURES;

EID: 68249144220     PISSN: 03666999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0366-6999.2009.12.015     Document Type: Article

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