Oxytocin inhibits pentylentetrazol-induced seizures in the rat

Peptides

Volumn 40, Issue , 2013, Pages 141-144

  Erbas, Oytun ^a   Yilmaz, Mustafa ^b   Korkmaz, Huseyin Anil ^c   Bora, Saylav ^a   Evren, Vedat ^a   Peker, Gonul ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b MUGLA SITKI KOCMAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c Behcet Uz Child Disease and Surgery Education and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Oxytocin; Pentylenetetrazol; Rat

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; PENTETRAZOLE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; EEG ABNORMALITY; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; SPIKE WAVE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; TREATMENT DURATION;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; MALE; OXYTOCIN; PENTYLENETETRAZOLE; RATS; SEIZURES;

RATTUS;

EID: 84876984891     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: 18735169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2012.12.003     Document Type: Article

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