Induction of cytosolic NADPH-diaphorase/nitric oxide synthase in reactive microglia/macrophages after quinolinic acid lesions in the rat striatum: An electron and light microscopical study

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 81-89

  Calka, Jaroslaw ^a,b   Wolf, Gerald ^a   Schmidt, Werner ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIV OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; QUINOLINIC ACID; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; HISTOLOGY; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MICROGLIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CORPUS STRIATUM; CYTOSOL; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MICROGLIA; MICROSCOPY; NADPH DEHYDROGENASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; QUINOLINIC ACID; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0030044577     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01450881     Document Type: Article

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