Uridine modulates neuronal activity and inhibits spike-wave discharges of absence epileptic Long Evans and Wistar Albino Glaxo/Rijswijk rats

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 97, Issue , 2013, Pages 16-23

  Kovács, Zsolt ^a   Slézia, Andrea ^b   Bali, Zsolt Kristóf ^c   Kovács, Péter ^c   Dobolyi, Arpád ^d   Szikra, Tamás ^b   Hernádi, István ^c   Juhász, Gábor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST HUNGARY   (Hungary)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^d INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Absence epileptic rats; EEG; Extracellular neuronal activity; Multibarrel microiontophoresis; Pyrimidine nucleoside; Spike wave discharges

Indexed keywords

URIDINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REFRACTORY PERIOD; SPIKE WAVE; THALAMUS; TREATMENT DURATION;

3-AMINOPYRIDINE; 3-AP; ABSENCE EPILEPTIC RATS; ADENOSINE; ADENOSINE 5′-TRIPHOSPHATE; ADO; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANOVA; ATP; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CNS; D.W.; DISTILLED WATER; EEG; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXTRACELLULAR NEURONAL ACTIVITY; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORM; FFT; GABA; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; I.P.; INTRAPERITONEAL; MULTIBARREL MICROIONTOPHORESIS; N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; NMDA; PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOSIDE; S.E.M.; SPIKE-WAVE DISCHARGE; SPIKE-WAVE DISCHARGES; STANDARD ERROR OF THE MEAN; SWD; UDP; URD; URIDINE; URIDINE 5′-DIPHOSPHATE; URIDINE 5′-TRIPHOSPHATE; UTP; WAG/RIJ; WISTAR ALBINO GLAXO/RIJSWIJK;

ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, WISTAR; THALAMUS; URIDINE;

EID: 84879384916     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: 18732747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2013.05.009     Document Type: Article

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