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[Effects of organic calcium antagonists and magnesium on the development of corazol kindling].

Abstract
In experiments on rats it was shown that i.p. administration of finoptin (verapamil), magnesium sulfate or ryodipine (an 1,4-dihydropyridine) 15 min before each daily injection of pentylenetetrazole (PTZ) in a subconvulsive dose (30 mg/kg i.p.) significantly (for 10-12 days delayed the development of pentylenetetrazole-induced kindling and attenuated kindled seizure reaction as compared with the controls. In animals sensitive to PTZ which were selected on the test of their reaction to previous single PTZ injection in a dose of 40 mg/kg finoptin, magnesium or finoptin + magnesium resulted in suppression of kindling development at late stages (after 2-week administration of drugs together with PTZ). After the withdrawal of the drugs there was a tendency to an increase of seizure reaction to the testing PTZ dose (30 mg/kg). The enhanced seizure susceptibility to test PTZ dose has being persisted during all observation period (8 months). Finoptin administered 15 min prior to PTZ had no effect on the severity of seizure reaction of fully kindled animals which had not received the drugs. The results obtained show that organic Ca-antagonists and magnesium delay the development of kindling induced seizure susceptibility, but cannot completely prevent it. The results also suggest that mechanisms of the chronic epileptogenesis (development of kindling induced seizure susceptibility) and those of the acute convulsive reaction to the epileptogen are not similar.
AuthorsG N Kryzhanovskiĭ, M N Karpova, O Iu Pankov
JournalBiulleten' eksperimental'noi biologii i meditsiny (Biull Eksp Biol Med) Vol. 110 Issue 10 Pg. 348-50 (Oct 1990) ISSN: 0365-9615 [Print] Russia (Federation)
Vernacular TitleVliianie organicheskikh kal'tsievykh antagonistov i magniia na razvitie korazologo kindlinga.
PMID2279078 (Publication Type: Comparative Study, English Abstract, Journal Article)
Chemical References
  • Calcium Channel Blockers
  • Magnesium Sulfate
  • Verapamil
  • Nifedipine
  • ryodipine
  • Pentylenetetrazole
Topics
  • Animals
  • Calcium Channel Blockers (pharmacology)
  • Kindling, Neurologic (drug effects)
  • Magnesium Sulfate (pharmacology)
  • Male
  • Nifedipine (analogs & derivatives, pharmacology)
  • Pentylenetetrazole (administration & dosage)
  • Rats
  • Rats, Inbred Strains
  • Verapamil (pharmacology)

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