Vitamin E, Ascorbate, Glutathione, Glutathicne Disulfide, and Enzymes of Glutathione Metabolism in Cultures of Chick Astrocytes and Neurons: Evidence that Astrocytes Play an Important Role in Antioxidative Processes in the Brain

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 45-53

  Makar, Tapas K ^a   Nedergaard, Maiken ^a   Preuss, Axel ^a   Gelbard, Alan S ^a   Perumal, Arthur S ^b,c   Cooper, Arthur J L ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^c NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ascorbate; Astrocytes in culture; Fatty acids; Glutathione; Glutathione disulfide; Glutathione peroxidase; Glutathione reducotase; Glutathione synthetase; Glutathione S transferase; Neurons in culture; Vitamin E; Glutamylcyclo transferase; Glutamylcysteine synthetase; Glutamyltranspeptidase

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ARACHIDONIC ACID; ASCORBIC ACID; BRAIN ENZYME; FATTY ACID; GAMMA GLUTAMYLCYCLOTRANSFERASE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAMATE CYSTEINE LIGASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE DISULFIDE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; GLUTATHIONE SYNTHASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; LINOLEIC ACID; OLEIC ACID; PALMITIC ACID; STEARIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CELL; CELL MEMBRANE; CHICK EMBRYO; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FOREBRAIN; GLUTATHIONE METABOLISM; LIPID COMPOSITION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMAL; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; ASTROCYTES; BRAIN; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CHICK EMBRYO; GAMMA-GLUTAMYLCYCLOTRANSFERASE; GAMMA-GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GLUTAMATE-CYSTEINE LIGASE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE DISULFIDE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE SYNTHASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; KINETICS; NEURONS; PROSENCEPHALON; PROTEIN DISULFIDE REDUCTASE (GLUTATHIONE); SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; VITAMIN E;

EID: 0027976087     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: 14714159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.1994.62010045.x     Document Type: Article

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