Lifarizine: A Blocker of Inactivated Voltage‐dependent Sodium Channels and Calcium Channels with Cerebral Neuroprotective Action

CNS Drug Reviews

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 149-167

  Brown, C M ^a   Rush, W R ^a   Colquhoun, H A ^a  

^a Syntex Research Europe   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lifarizine; Neuroprotection; Sodium channel

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989423217     PISSN: 1080563X     EISSN: 15273458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1527-3458.1995.tb00281.x     Document Type: Article

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