Ghrelin anticonvulsive properties: Is it a matter of desacylation?

Epilepsia

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1277-1278

  Biagini, Giuseppe ^a   Locatelli, Vittorio ^b   Torsello, Antonio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CHOLINESTERASE; GHRELIN; GHRELIN RECEPTOR; KAINIC ACID; MACIMORELIN; PENTETRAZOLE; PILOCARPINE;

ACYLATION; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; CLONIC SEIZURE; CONVULSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG HALF LIFE; EPILEPSY; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TENDON REFLEX;

ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; EPILEPSY; GHRELIN; HUMANS;

EID: 84863653051     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2012.03546.x     Document Type: Letter

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