Chronically administered 3-nitropropionic acid induces striatal lesions attributed to dysfunction of the blood-brain barrier

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 186, Issue 2-3, 1995, Pages 161-164

  Nishino, Hitoo ^a   Shimano, Yasunobu ^a   Kumazaki, Michiko ^a   Sakurai, Terumi ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

3 nitropropionic acid; Blood brain barrier; Complement factor C3b C4br; GFAP; IgG; Neuronal death; Striatum

Indexed keywords

3 NITROPROPIONIC ACID; ENDOGENOUS COMPOUND; ENZYME INHIBITOR; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN INJURY; CELL DEATH; COMPLEMENT FACTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ANIMAL; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN DISEASES; COMPLEMENT 3B; COMPLEMENT 4B; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEOSTRIATUM; NERVE DEGENERATION; PROPIONIC ACIDS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0028942180     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(95)11311-J     Document Type: Article

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