Effect of various antiepileptic drugs in a pentylenetetrazol-induced seizure model in mice

Methods and Findings in Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 423-432

  Akula, K K ^a   Dhir, A ^a   Kulkarni, S K ^a  

^a PANJAB UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Antiepileptic drugs; Pentylenetetrazol; Seizure threshold; TID50

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ADENOSINE; ALCOHOL; CARBAMAZEPINE; CHLORDIAZEPOXIDE; CLONAZEPAM; DIAZEPAM; GABAPENTIN; PENTETRAZOLE; PENTOBARBITAL; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PREGABALIN; PROGESTERONE; ROFECOXIB; TIAGABINE; TRIAZOLAM; WITHANIA SOMNIFERA EXTRACT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CLONIC SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; DISEASE MODEL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG POTENCY; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; MOUSE; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; NONHUMAN; SEIZURE; SEIZURE THRESHOLD;

ADENOSINE; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTICONVULSANTS; BARBITURATES; CARBAMAZEPINE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CONVULSANTS; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITORS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; ETHANOL; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LACTONES; MALE; MICE; PENTYLENETETRAZOLE; PHENYTOIN; SEIZURES; SULFONES; WITHANIA;

EID: 71749118368     PISSN: 03790355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1358/mf.2009.31.7.1415891     Document Type: Article

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