A pro-convulsive carbamazepine metabolite: Quinolinic acid in drug resistant epileptic human brain

Drugs and their metabolites often produce undesirable effects. These may be due to a number of mechanisms, including biotransformation by P450 enzymes which are not exclusively expressed by hepatocytes but also by endothelial cells in brain from epileptics. The possibility thus exists that the poten...

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Main Authors: Chaitali Ghosh, Nicola Marchi, Mohammed Hossain, Peter Rasmussen, Andreas V. Alexopoulos, Jorge Gonzalez-Martinez, Hu Yang, Damir Janigro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2012-06-01
Series:Neurobiology of Disease
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969996112000812