Dietary supplementation with acetyl-l-carnitine in seizure treatment of pentylenetetrazole kindled mice

Neurochemistry International

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 444-454

  Smeland, Olav B ^a   Meisingset, Tore W ^a   Sonnewald, Ursula ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Acetyl l carnitine; Dopamine; GABA; Hypometabolism; Pentylenetetrazole kindling; Seizure

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; LEVACECARNINE; PENTETRAZOLE; VALPROIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; DRUG EFFECT; GLUCOSE BRAIN LEVEL; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GLYCOLYSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE;

ACETYLCARNITINE; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CONVULSANTS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; GLUCOSE; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PENTYLENETETRAZOLE; SEIZURES;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 84865754103     PISSN: 01970186     EISSN: 18729754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuint.2012.06.008     Document Type: Article

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