The anticonvulsant and neuroprotective effects of walnuts on the neurons of rat brain cortex

Avicenna Journal of Medical Biotechnology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 155-158

  Asadi Shekaari, Majid ^a   Kalantaripour, Taj Pari ^b   Nejad, Fatemeh Arab ^c   Namazian, Elaheh ^c   Eslami, Azam ^d  

^a KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Neuroprotective; Rat; Seizures

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MORTALITY; NERVE CELL; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; NUT KERNEL; RAT; SEIZURE THRESHOLD; SUPPLEMENTATION; WALNUT; WALNUT KERNEL;

JUGLANS; RATTUS;

EID: 84864350281     PISSN: 20082835     EISSN: 20084625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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