Systemic administration of antibodies to glutamate increases seizure threshold for pentylenetetrazole

V A Evseev1, M N Karpova, L A Vetrile

  • 1Institute of General Pathology and Pathophysiology, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow.

We studied the effect of single intraperitoneal treatment with antibodies to glutamate on pentylenetetrazole-induced acute generalized epileptiform activity in C57Bl/6 mice. The antiepileptic effect was observed 1.5 and 24 h after administration of antibodies to glutamate in doses of 10, 25, and 50 mg/kg. This treatment increased the thresholds of clonic seizures and tonic phase of seizures with lethal outcome.