Menthone semicarbazides and thiosemicarbazides as anticonvulsant agents

Medicinal Chemistry

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 44-50

  Jain, Endra ^a   Kumar, Y ^b   Stables, James ^c   Sinha, Reema ^a  

^a Ram Eesh Institute of Vocational & Technical Education   (India)

^b ITS Paramedical College (Pharmacy)   (India)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

( ) 3 menthone; Anticonvulsant; Antiepileptic drug development (AED); Maximal Electroshock Seizure (MES); Semicarbazides; Subcutaneous pentylene tetrazole (scPTZ); Thiosemicarbazides

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CLOBAZAM; N 1 (4 FLUOROPHENYL) N 4 (MENTH 3 ONE)SEMICARBAZIDE; PENTETRAZOLE; PHENYTOIN; SEMICARBAZIDE DERIVATIVE; THIOSEMICARBAZIDE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ELECTRIC SHOCK; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MOUSE; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; SPECTROSCOPY; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; CELL MEMBRANE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HYDROPHOBICITY; MALE; MENTHOL; MICE; RATS; SEMICARBAZIDES;

EID: 77950869424     PISSN: 15734064     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157340610791208727     Document Type: Article

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