Serotonin neurones have anti-convulsant effects and reduce seizure-induced mortality

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 592, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 4395-4410

  Buchanan, Gordon F ^a,b   Murray, Nicholas M ^c   Hajek, Michael A ^a   Richerson, George B ^a,c,d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITALOPRAM; FENCLONINE; PILOCARPINE; SEROTONIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRIC SHOCK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; MALE; MAXIMAL ELECTROSHOCK; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEIZURE; SEIZURE SUSCEPTIBILITY; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; SUDDEN DEATH; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COMPLICATION; DISEASE MODEL; ETIOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; DEATH, SUDDEN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROSHOCK; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PILOCARPINE; SEIZURES; SEROTONERGIC NEURONS;

EID: 84908571495     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2014.277574     Document Type: Article

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