"Convulsants" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Substances that act in the brain stem or spinal cord to produce tonic or clonic convulsions, often by removing normal inhibitory tone. They were formerly used to stimulate respiration or as antidotes to barbiturate overdose. They are now most commonly used as experimental tools.
| Descriptor ID |
D003292
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D27.505.696.282.224 D27.505.954.427.220.224
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| Concept/Terms |
Convulsant Effect- Convulsant Effect
- Effect, Convulsant
- Convulsant Effects
- Effects, Convulsant
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| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Convulsants" by people in Profiles.
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McKiernan RC, Jimenez-Mateos EM, Sano T, Bray I, Stallings RL, Simon RP, Henshall DC. Expression profiling the microRNA response to epileptic preconditioning identifies miR-184 as a modulator of seizure-induced neuronal death. Exp Neurol. 2012 Oct; 237(2):346-54.
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Henshall DC, Skradski SL, Meller R, Araki T, Minami M, Schindler CK, Lan JQ, Bonislawski DP, Simon RP. Expression and differential processing of caspases 6 and 7 in relation to specific epileptiform EEG patterns following limbic seizures. Neurobiol Dis. 2002 Jul; 10(2):71-87.
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Mukherjee S, Das SK. Subcellular distribution of "peripheral type" binding sites for [3H]Ro5-4864 in guinea pig lung. Localization to the mitochondrial inner membrane. J Biol Chem. 1989 Oct 05; 264(28):16713-8.