Striatal malonate lesions are attenuated in neuronal nitric oxide synthase knockout mice

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 430-433

  Schulz, Jörg B ^a,c   Huang, Paul L ^a   Matthews, Russell T ^a   Passov, David ^a   Fishman, Mark C ^a   Beal, M Flint ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Excitotoxicity; Free radicals; Huntington's disease; Malonate; Nitric oxide; Peroxynitrite

Indexed keywords

MALONIC ACID; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME KINETICS; GENE DISRUPTION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE INJURY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; RESPIRATORY CHAIN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029902543     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.1996.67010430.x     Document Type: Article

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