Vitamin C: A new auxiliary treatment of epilepsy?

Pharmacological Reports

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 529-533

  Sawicka Glazer, Edyta ^a   Czuczwar, Stanisław J ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Ascorbic acid; Epilepsy; Neurodegeneration; Seizures

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ASCORBIC ACID; KAINIC ACID; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PENTETRAZOLE; PILOCARPINE; TRIMETHYLTIN; ANTIOXIDANT;

ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; COGNITION; EPILEPSY; EXPERIMENTAL SEIZURE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MORTALITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REVIEW; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; ANIMAL; BRAIN; DRUG EFFECTS; METABOLISM; MOTOR ACTIVITY;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; BRAIN; COGNITION; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS;

EID: 84902529388     PISSN: 22995684     EISSN: 22995684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pharep.2014.02.016     Document Type: Review

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