Glutamate, glutamine and glutamine synthetase in the neonatal rat brain following hypoxia

Brain Research

Volumn 707, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 134-137

  Krajnc, Dimitri ^a   Neff, Norton H ^a   Hadjiconstantinou, Maria ^a  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Glutamate; Glutamine; Glutamine synthetase; Neonatal hypoxia

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN HYPOXIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0030066293     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(95)01372-5     Document Type: Article

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