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This article is part of the supplement: International Society on Brain and Behaviour: 3rd International Congress on Brain and Behaviour

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Anticonvulsive effects of rutin in a rat model of absence seizure: a novel compound to treat seizure

Schwann Shariati Rad1, Marjan Nassiri Asl1 and Farzaneh Zamansoltani2

1Dep of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran

2Dep of Anatomy, School of Medicine, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran

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from International Society on Brain and Behaviour: 3rd International Congress on Brain and Behaviour
Thessaloniki, Greece. 28 November – 2 December 2007

Annals of General Psychiatry 2008, 7(Suppl 1):S219doi:10.1186/1744-859X-7-S1-S219

Published: 17 April 2008

First paragraph (this article has no abstract)

Rutin is a flavonoid of the flavonol type, is found in many typical nutrimental plants and is an important dietary constituent of food and plant-based beverages. It has biological and pharmacological activities, rutin exhibits antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-carcinogenic, antithrombic, cytoprotective and vasoprotective activities [1-4].


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