Anticonvulsant Suppression of Postnatal Neurogenesis in Laboratory Animals

Abstract

The effects of phenobarbital and diazepam on cell proliferation and neurogenesis were studied in newborn rats followed for 6 months, in a study at University of Dresden, Germany; Medical University, Lublin, Poland; University Medicine Berlin, Germany; and Solvay Research Laboratories, Weesp, The Netherlands.

Keywords

• neurogenesis
• agonists phenobarbital
• postnatal