Review Article
The Effect of Metformin in Experimentally Induced Animal Models of Epileptic Seizure
Table 1
Databases employed and respective key terms used.
| Databases and search terms used to extract all available and relevant articles | No. of articles retrieved () |
| SCOPUS | | 1 “seizure” OR “epilepsy” AND “metformin” | 2 “seizure” OR “epilepsy” AND “oral hypoglycemic agents” OR “oral antidiabetic agents” | Sciences-Direct | | 1 “seizure” OR “epilepsy” AND “metformin” | 2 “seizure” OR “epilepsy” AND “oral hypoglycemic agents” OR “oral antidiabetic agents” | PubMed | | 1 “epilepsy [Mesh] OR epilepsy[tw]” | 2 “seizure [Mesh] OR seizure[tw]” | 3 “metformin [Mesh] OR Metformin[tw]” | 4 “oral hypoglycemic agents [Mesh] OR Oral hypoglycemic agents[tw]” | Finally, search for (#1 OR # 2) AND (# 3 OR # 4) | Grey literatures (Google scholar and regular Google search) | | (1) Antiepileptic activities of metformin OR epilepsy and metformin | | (2) Antiseizure actions of metformin OR seizure and metformin | |
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