Early postnatal exposure of rats to lamotrigine, but not phenytoin, reduces seizure threshold in adulthood

Epilepsia

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Forcelli, Patrick A ^a   Gale, Karen ^a   Kondratyev, Alexei ^a,b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antiepileptic drug; Development; Pentylenetetrazol

Indexed keywords

LAMOTRIGINE; PENTETRAZOLE; PHENYTOIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG EXPOSURE; MALE; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE THRESHOLD; TERATOGENESIS;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; MALE; PHENYTOIN; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TRIAZINES;

EID: 79953687960     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2010.02971.x     Document Type: Article

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