Neonatal (from day 2 to day 7 of life) injection of neuropeptide semax to mice of 5 inbred strains significantly reduced predisposition to audiogenic epilepsy in only one-month-old DBA/2J mice, which manifested in changes in the mean audiogenic sensitivity score and percentage of animals dead as a result of acoustic stimulation.
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Translated from Byulleten' Eksperimental'noi Biologii i Meditsiny, Vol. 146, No. 7, pp. 94–96, July, 2008
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Boyarshinova, O.S., Perepelkina, O.V., Markina, N.V. et al. Audiogenic epilepsy in young mice of different strains after neonatal semax treatment. Bull Exp Biol Med 146, 86–88 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10517-008-0212-5
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