Effects of gestational or neonatal treatment with alpha-difluoromethylornithine on ornithine decarboxylase and polyamines in developing rat brain and on adult rat neurochemistry

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 433-440

  Sparapani, M ^a   Virgili, M ^a   Caprini, M ^a   Facchinetti, F ^a   Ciani, E ^a   Contestabile, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain development; Neurochemistry; Ornithine decarboxylase; Polyamines; Rat

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; EFLORNITHINE; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; POLYAMINE; PUTRESCINE; SPERMIDINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN WEIGHT; CEREBELLUM; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; FETUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0029867521     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00227266     Document Type: Article

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