A summary of mechanistic hypotheses of gabapentin pharmacology

Epilepsy Research - Tập 29 Số 3 - Trang 233-249 - 1998
Charles P. Taylor1, N S Gee, Ti‐Zhi Su, Jeffery D. Kocsis, Devin Welty, Jason P. Brown, David Dooley, P. Boden, L Singh
1Department of Neuroscience Therapeutics, Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical Research, Division of Warner-Lambert Co., Ann Arbor, MI 48105, USA.

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