The effect of serotonin on penicillin-induced epileptiform activity.

Objective: This study was aimed at examining the epileptiform activity of the 5-HT serotonin receptor agonist and antagonist, and 5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP) in penicillin-induced epilepsy in albino Wistar rats.

Methods: For this purpose, 90 albino male Wistar rats were used in this study. Epileptiform activity was induced by an injection of penicillin, an agonist of GABAA receptor, (500 IU, i.

Effects of low and high doses of acetylsalicylic acid on penicillin-induced epileptiform activity.

Background: The most common headache associated with epilepsy occurs after seizure activity and is called a postictal headache. Therefore, the objective of this study was to investigate the effects of low and high doses acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) on a penicillin-induced experimental epilepsy model.

Methods: Adult male Wistar rats (n = 28, weighing 220 ± 40 g) were used in the experiments.

Acute effects of aceclofenac, COX-2 inhibitor, on penicillin-induced epileptiform activity.

Purpose: The effects of COX-2 inhibitors on seizure activity are controversial. The aim of the current study was to determine the post-treatment effect of aceclofenac on penicillin-induced experimental epilepsy.

Methods: Male Wistar rats were used in all experiments (n=18).

Biological activities and some physicochemical properties of sunflower honeys collected from the Thrace region of Turkey.

Honey is a sweet food made by bees using nectar from flowers. Its quality depends on a number of factors, such as floral type, pH, moisture, free acidity, diastase activity, invert sugar and sucrose. The aim of the study is to examine the qualities of 50 sunflower honey (Helianthus annuus L.

Morphometric analysis of oppiid mites (Acari, Oribatida) collected from Turkey.

In order to assess the relationship between the oppiid mite species (Acari, Oribatida) collected from Turkey, traditional and geometric morphometric methods were used. We have taken photographs of 128 specimens belonging to 11 species from six subfamilies of Oppiidae. These photographs were digitized and 17 interval measurements were taken for traditional morphometric analysis, and 20 landmarks were recognized on the ventral surface of each specimen for geometric morphometric analysis.