Lamotrigine ameliorates seizures and psychiatric comorbidity in a rat model of spontaneous absence epilepsy

Epilepsia

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2005-2014

  Huang, Hsin Yi ^a   Lee, Hsiao Wei ^a   Chen, Shang Der ^b   Shaw, Fu Zen ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Absence epilepsy; Anxiety; Depression; Lamotrigine; Long Evans rat; Spike wave discharge

Indexed keywords

LAMOTRIGINE; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; SUGAR INTAKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEIZURES; TRIAZINES;

EID: 84869046986     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2012.03664.x     Document Type: Article

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