NO synthase and xanthine oxidase activities of rabbit brain synaptosomes: Peroxynitrite formation as a causative factor of neurotoxicity

Neurochemical Research

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 51-61

  Deliconstantinos, George ^a   Villiotou, Vassiliki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

membrane fluidity; neurotoxicity; Nitric oxide (NO); NO synthase; peroxynitrite (ONOO); soluble guanylate cyclase; synaptosomes; ultraviolet radiation; xanthine oxidase

Indexed keywords

1 PHENYL 6 [4 (TRIMETHYLAMMONIO)PHENYL] 1,3,5 HEXATRIENE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; CALCIMYCIN; CALCIUM ION; CYCLIC GMP; DEFEROXAMINE; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; N(G) METHYLARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PEROXYNITRITE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XANTHINE OXIDASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME METABOLISM; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RADIATION DOSE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ENZYME INHIBITORS; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; NEURONS; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; OMEGA-N-METHYLARGININE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RABBITS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SYNAPTOSOMES; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; XANTHINE OXIDASE;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0029883171     PISSN: 03643190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02527672     Document Type: Article

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