In vivo determination of extracellular brain ascorbate

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 15-19

  Miele, M ^a,b   Fillenz, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

ascorbate; extracellular concentration, in vivo; homeostasis; rat striatum; unanaesthetised rat; voltammetry

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; POTENTIOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ASCORBIC ACID; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; MICROELECTRODES; PERFUSION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0030560652     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(96)00094-5     Document Type: Article

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