High dose folic acid supplementation of rats alters synaptic transmission and seizure susceptibility in offspring

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Girotto, Fernando ^a   Scott, Lucas ^a   Avchalumov, Yosef ^a   Harris, Jacqueline ^a   Iannattone, Stephanie ^a   Drummond Main, Chris ^a   Tobias, Rose ^a   Bello Espinosa, Luis ^a   Rho, Jong M ^a   Davidsen, Jörn ^a   Campbell Teskey, G ^b   Colicos, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; RAT; SEIZURE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEIZURES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

EID: 84876513334     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01465     Document Type: Article

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