Neonatal tricyclic antidepressant clomipramine treatment reduces the spike-wave discharge activity of the adult WAG/Rij rat

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 89, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 102-107

  Kovács, Zsolt ^a   Czurkó, András ^b,c   Kékesi, Katalin A ^b   Juhász, Gábor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST HUNGARY   (Hungary)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Absence like epilepsy; Neonatal clomipramine treatment; WAG Rij rats

Indexed keywords

CLOMIPRAMINE; SUCROSE;

ABSENCE LIKE EPILEPSY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REM SLEEP; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SPIKE WAVE; SUGAR INTAKE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CLOMIPRAMINE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FOOD PREFERENCES; MALE; RATS; SLEEP, REM; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENTS; TIME FACTORS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84866347766     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: 18732747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2012.07.010     Document Type: Article

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