Preclinical assessment of proconvulsant drug activity and its relevance for predicting adverse events in humans

2009/03/17 by Wolfgang Löscher · 133 citations
Medicine · Neuroscience · #Adverse effect #Anticonvulsant #Anticonvulsant drugs #Convulsion #Drug #Epilepsy #Epilepsy research and treatment #Medicine #Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research #Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies #Pharmacology #Psychiatry #Safety pharmacology #Seizure threshold

paper · doi:10.1016/j.ejphar.2009.03.025

published in European Journal of Pharmacology 610(1-3), 1-11 (Elsevier BV)

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