Agmatine enhances the anticonvulsant effect of lithium chloride on pentylenetetrazole-induced seizures in mice: Involvement of L-arginine/nitric oxide pathway

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 186-192

  Bahremand, Arash ^a   Ziai, Pouya ^a   Khodadad, Tina Kabiri ^a   Payandemehr, Borna ^a   Rahimian, Reza ^a   Ghasemi, Abbas ^a   Ghasemi, Mehdi ^a   Hedayat, Tina ^a   Dehpour, Ahmad Reza ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Agmatine; L arginine nitric oxide; Lithium chloride; Mice; Nitric oxide synthase; Pentylenetetrazole induced clonic seizures

Indexed keywords

7 NITROINDAZOLE; AGMATINE; AMINOGUANIDINE; ARGININE; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; LITHIUM CHLORIDE; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PENTETRAZOLE; 7-NITROINDAZOLE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ENZYME INHIBITOR; INDAZOLE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CLONIC SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG POTENTIATION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SEIZURE THRESHOLD; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DISEASE MODEL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; METABOLISM; SEIZURES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AGMATINE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; ARGININE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG SYNERGISM; ENZYME INHIBITORS; INDAZOLES; LITHIUM CHLORIDE; MALE; MICE; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; PENTYLENETETRAZOLE; SEIZURES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 77954386710     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2010.04.014     Document Type: Article

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