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C Piérard1, P Satabin, D Lagarde, B Barrère, C Y Guezennec, J P Menu, M Pérès.
Abstract
The effects of modafinil, a vigilance-enhancing drug, on brain metabolism were investigated directly in situ by the 2D COSY 1H-NMR spectroscopy in anesthetized rats. Modafinil (600 mg/kg, i.p.) induced significant increases in both aspartate (72% +/- 15%) and glutamate-glutamine pool (28% +/- 8%) simultaneously with increases in inositol (51% +/- 19%) and creatine-phosphocreatine pool (47% +/- 14%) in comparison with control values (P < 0.05; n = 5). These results suggest that the awakening properties of modafinil could be mediated by metabolic activation.Entities:
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Year: 1995 PMID: 8653416 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(95)00711-x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Brain Res ISSN: 0006-8993 Impact factor: 3.252