Effects of conventional anticonvulsant drugs on generalized tonic-clonic seizures in Noda epileptic rats

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 108, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1158-1167

  Inoue, Maki ^a   Yamamoto, Ayaka ^a   Kaneko, Yuka ^a   Noda, Atsushi ^b   Naito, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Research Institute for Animal Science in Biochemistry and Toxicology   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antiepileptic drugs; EEG; Epilepsy models; Genetics; Non priming; Rat

Indexed keywords

PHENOBARBITAL; SODIUM CHLORIDE; VALPROIC ACID; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ANALOG DIGITAL CONVERTER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG ELIMINATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MICROCOMPUTER; MULTICHANNEL RECORDER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENVIRONMENT; EPILEPSY; GENETICS; INBRED RAT STRAIN; TIME;

ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN WAVES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENT; EPILEPSY; MALE; PHENOBARBITAL; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; TIME FACTORS; VALPROIC ACID;

EID: 84904751534     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: 18726844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2014.05.004     Document Type: Article

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